“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”
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“Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
“In art, as in nature and in life, relations are modes of interaction.”
“It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well-put is half-solved.”
“The contingency of all into which time enters is the source of pathos, comedy, and tragedy.”
“Individuality is the source of whatever is unpredictable in the world.”
“The artist in realizing his own individuality reveals potentialities hitherto unrealized.”
“The world's a fine place for those who go out to take it; there's lots of unknown stuff in it yet.”
“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
“The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.”
“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.”
“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”
“Art is never dogmatic; holds no brief for itself; you may take it, or you may leave it.”
“It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles.”