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Quotes from The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent — John Erskine

1879–1951 United States

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We really seek intelligence not for the answers it may suggest to the problems of life, but because we believe it is life,—not for aid in making the will of God prevail, but because we believe it is the will of God. We love it, as we love virtue, for its own sake, and we believe it is only virtue’s other and more precise name.

The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent (1915)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Erskine (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.