All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

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• Ernest Dimnet:

  The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repeti

• Ernest Dimnet:

  Ideas are the root of creation.

• Ernest Dimnet:

  Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habi

• Ernest Dimnet:

  The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

• Ernest Dimnet:

  Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisemen

• Ernest Dimnet:

  Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the s

• Ernest Dimnet:

  Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

• Ernest Dimnet:

  Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it

• Ernest Dimnet:

  A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

• Ernest Dimnet:

  Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.