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Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

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David BrewsterMore Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian

Philosophers have argued about the strongest emotion known to man. Some say ‘love’, others ‘hate’, o...

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E. F. BensonNight Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live with...

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The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for math...

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It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like ...

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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the no...

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An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on...

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It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participa...

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Mark RothkoThe Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady p...

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Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of...

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The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both chall...

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Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of thei...

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He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capa...

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I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of mo...

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, ...

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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.