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> [“There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/there-is-a-widespread-philosophical-tendency-towards-the-view-which/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [“Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rohinton-mistry/depression-is-a-red-herring-said-nariman-i-think-a-lot-about-the-past/)

[Rohinton Mistry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rohinton-mistry/)

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> [It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kleinig/it-is-odd-that-a-value-virtue-that-plays-such-a-central-role-in/)

[John Kleinig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kleinig/)

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> [Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-sober/methodological-naturalism-gives-advice-to-scientists-about-what-they/)

[Elliott Sober](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-sober/)

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> [“You don’t need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don’t need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miguel-ruiz/you-don-t-need-knowledge-or-great-philosophical-concepts-you-don-t/)

[Miguel Ruiz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miguel-ruiz/)

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> [...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-mele/if-there-is-a-widely-shared-concept-of-intentional-action-a/)

[Alfred Mele](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-mele/)

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> [Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/language-the-machine-of-the-poet-is-best-fitted-for-his-purpose-in/)

[Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/)

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> [Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jostein-gaarder/socrates-whose-mother-was-a-midwife-used-to-say-that-his-art-was-like/)

[Jostein Gaarder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jostein-gaarder/)

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> [“Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - science, philosophy, religion, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-behe/is-the-conclusion-that-the-universe-was-designed-and-that-the-design/)

[Michael J. Behe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-behe/)

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> [Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bas-van-fraassen/certain-issues-in-philosophy-of-science-having-to-do-with-observation/)

[Bas van Fraassen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bas-van-fraassen/)

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> [If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-m-krauss/if-we-wish-to-draw-philosophical-conclusions-about-our-own-existence/)

[Lawrence M. Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-m-krauss/)

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> [“You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-anderson/you-can-dance-you-can-make-me-laugh-you-ve-got-x-ray-eyes-you-know/)

[Laurie Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-anderson/)

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> [When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/when-we-want-culture-more-than-potatoes-and-illumination-more-than/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/philosophy-is-at-once-the-most-sublime-and-the-most-trivial-of-human/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-schama/america-is-truly-special-because-it-s-founded-on-an-idea-it-s-the/)

[Simon Schama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-schama/)

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> [I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/i-was-occupied-by-a-range-of-questions-often-different-from-those/)

[Philip Kitcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-kitcher/)

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> [Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-bagdikian/letting-a-maximum-number-of-views-be-heard-regularly-is-not-just-a/)

[Ben Bagdikian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-bagdikian/)

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> [You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/you-swore-you-d-never-compromise-with-the-mystery-tramp-but-now-you/)

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> [There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/there-is-no-doubt-that-healthy-mindedness-is-inadequate-as-a-2/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kumail-nanjiani/philosophy-is-problem-solving-there-s-a-philosophical-problem-and/)

[Kumail Nanjiani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kumail-nanjiani/)

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> [Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-lee/many-people-dedicate-their-lives-to-actualizing-a-concept-of-what/)

[Bruce Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-lee/)

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> [I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-scruton/i-ve-always-taken-the-view-that-works-of-art-are-not-just-things-that/)

[Roger Scruton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-scruton/)

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> [Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-d-ryder/because-one-species-is-more-clever-than-another-does-it-give-it-the/)

[Richard D. Ryder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-d-ryder/)

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> [Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/through-all-the-years-that-i-spent-formulating-my-philosophical/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-gide/to-understand-is-nothing-but-to-be-understood-that-is-the-problem-and/)

[Andre Gide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-gide/)

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> [You are not a real man if you do this, A Real man should / should not.., As a real man you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mohit-sharma/you-are-not-a-real-man-if-you-do-this-a-real-man-should-should-not-as/)

[Mohit Sharma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mohit-sharma/)

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> [“I had been reading Wittgenstein. There are no philosophical problems, only linguistic misunderstandings. Was this so? If so, why write at such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-had-been-reading-wittgenstein-there-are-no-philosophical-problems/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-sturgeon/some-major-writers-have-a-huge-impact-like-ayn-rand-who-to-my-mind-is/)

[Theodore Sturgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-sturgeon/)

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> [In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-herschel/in-the-fabulous-ages-of-ancient-times-the-appellations-of-mercury/)

[William Herschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-herschel/)

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> [As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kleinig/as-for-the-ethics-law-and-politics-relationship-there-has-always-been/)

[John Kleinig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kleinig/)

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> [When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-schneider/when-i-experienced-altered-states-of-consciousness-my-whole/)

[Susan Schneider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-schneider/)

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> [The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxim-gorky/the-intelligentsia-was-kept-busy-embroidering-white-stitches-on-the/)

[Maxim Gorky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxim-gorky/)

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> [In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyrano-de-bergerac/in-it-he-proves-that-all-things-are-true-and-states-how-the-truths-of/)

[Cyrano de Bergerac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyrano-de-bergerac/)

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> [Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/imagination-is-an-almost-divine-faculty-which-without-recourse-to-any/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

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> [It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/it-started-becoming-clear-to-me-how-one-might-have-views-about-the/)

[Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/)

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> [“If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vitruvius/if-nature-has-composed-the-human-body-so-that-in-its-proportions-the/)

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> [“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/as-summer-neared-as-the-evening-lengthened-there-came-to-the-wakeful/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theophile-gautier/it-is-a-difficult-matter-to-gain-the-affection-of-a-cat-he-is-a/)

[Theophile Gautier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theophile-gautier/)

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> [You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/you-will-all-know-that-in-the-middle-ages-there-were-supposed-to-be/)

[Charles Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-williams/)

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> [Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-esposito/not-possessing-definite-geographical-boundaries-at-least-in-the-east/)

[Roberto Esposito](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-esposito/)

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                        "text": "“There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth is man-made, that space and time and the world of universals are properties of the mind, and that, if there be anything not created by the mind, it is unknowable and of no account for us. This view, if our previous discussions were correct, is untrue; but in addition to being untrue, it has the effect of robbing philosophic contemplation of all that gives it value, since it fetters contemplation to Self. What it calls knowledge is not a union with the not-Self, but a set of prejudices, habits, and desires, making an impenetrable veil between us and the world beyond. The man who finds pleasure in such a theory of knowledge is like a man who never leaves the domestic circle for fear his word might not be law.”",
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                        "text": "“Depression is a red herring,\" said Nariman. \"I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.”",
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                        "text": "It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in philosophical writing. There are probably a number of reasons, but I think that a predilection for a certain kind of individualism is a major one. Others might include the fashionability of consequentialism, the idea that loyalty has more to do with sentiment than reason, as well as its proneness to corruption. The revival of interest in virtue/character as distinct from rules/principles has also created space for a renewed, if hesitant, interest in loyalty.",
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                        "text": "Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism that gives advice to philosophers, which I call \"methodological naturalismp.\" It says that the methods that philosophers should use in assessing philosophical theories are limited to the methods that scientists ought to use in assessing scientific theories.",
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                        "text": "“You don’t need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don’t need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. It is an expression of God to say, “Hey, I love you.”",
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                        "text": "...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.",
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                        "text": "Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.",
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                        "text": "Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.",
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                        "text": "“Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - science, philosophy, religion, or what? In a sense it hardly matters. By far the most important question is not what category we place it in, but whether a conclusion is true. A true philosophical or religious conclusion is no less true than a true scientific one. Although universities might divide their faculty and courses into academic categories, reality is not obliged to respect such boundaries.”",
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                        "text": "Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as issues in philosophy of logic and of language. With respect to modality, I hold the exact opposite: important philosophical problems concerning language have been misconstrued as relating to the content of science and the nature of the world. This is not at all new, but is the traditional nominalist line.",
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                        "text": "If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.",
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                        "text": "“You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. You can charm the birds out of the sky, But I, I've got one thing. You always know just what to say And when to go, But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark, But I've got one thing: I loved you better. Last night I woke up, Saw this angel. He flew in my window. And he said, Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh?\" And I looked around and said, Who me?\" And he said, \"The higher you fly, the faster you fall.\" He said, \"Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's rainbow. Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's Angel.”",
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                        "text": "When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.",
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                        "text": "Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.",
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                        "text": "America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.",
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                        "text": "To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.",
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                        "text": "You are not a real man if you do this, A Real man should / should not.., As a real man you are supposed to.., etc..there are so many conditions for to prove yourself a real man & I am sure almost all of us guys at some point of time in our lives knowingly or unknowingly did something which was not supposed to be done by a real man so by that logic we all are not the MAN! :) And here I am not talking about crimes-misconduct..just little things-shoulds imposed on men. ---Btw, conditions are also there in case of women like This is how a 'lady' should be treated (even if she is a criminal...even with a heinous crime), This is not the way to talk to a woman (even if she is a FALSE abuse/rape/dowry/molestation/child custody/alimony ACCUSER or cheats on her man), All women are beautiful... (even if she is an abuser, pedophile herself)... Thank you! Feminists (read Feminazis) for doing (for decades) exactly what you were fighting against when you began this pious revolution.",
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                        "text": "“I had been reading Wittgenstein. There are no philosophical problems, only linguistic misunderstandings. Was this so? If so, why write at such length about it? I could understand [his] attraction to such a philosophy. Spartan, rigorous. Surpassingly skeptical. Well, good: philosophers should be skeptical. (No one else is: the mass of mankind is credulous as a gigantic infant, willing to suck any teat.)”",
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                        "text": "In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Pallas, Apollo, or Minerva for a name to out new heavenly body. . . . I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus, to a star [Uranus], by which (with to respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.",
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