Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
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Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs’ legs— especially if the frogs are decapitated—and that—on the other hand—any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings-with heads on their shoulders—must be benighted and superstitious.
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Birth: | 11th January, 1842 |
Death: | 26th August, 1910 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Philosopher, Psychologist |
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