Today Quotes
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.Kenneth Williams, Acid Drops (1980)
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.Wendell Willkie, An American Programme (1944)
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 1915
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.Tryon Edwards
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.Woodrow Wilson, Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)