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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

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A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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Science is analytical description, philosophy is synthetic interpretation. Science wishes to resolve the whole into the known.

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Philosophy... is the front trench in the siege of truth. Science is the captured territory.

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