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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.