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"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare." These words which bring to a close Spinoza's masterpiece Ethics, after the manner of Geometry, sum up the experience of a life as rare as it was difficult.

— Edgar A. Singer Jr. Modern thinkers and present problems (1923)

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All the categories of life and mind are to my understanding of them teleological.

The straightest way to the heart of old matters is an old letter.

Modern thinkers and present problems (1923)

Art is (1) a messenger of discontent, yet (2) no teacher of new ideals, but rather (3) an inspiration to each it touches, himself to turn creator of a world-more-ideal.

We may not feel as confident as once we did that the way to truth lies all open before us the moment we have brought our vague questionings to a form that "leaves the rest to experiment."

Mind As Behavior And Studies In Empirical Idealism (1924)

It is seldom given to philosophers to enter into one another's enthusiasms, but they are sometimes allowed to share a disappointment. And could anything be more generally disappointing than the attitude of a certain important group of natural philosophers toward the study of minds?

Mind As Behavior And Studies In Empirical Idealism (1924)

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