Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.

Alfred North Whitehead
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  1. Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

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  3. Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in...

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  5. In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

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