"We know the truth not only through our……" — Blaise Pascal

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• The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to… — Henry Bolingbroke
• The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who… — Proclus
• Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men… — Aristotle
• We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all… — David Mamet
• Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for… — Aristotle
• Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is… — George Washington
• Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of… — James Madison
• Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form.… — Ernest Holmes
• The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. — Democritus
• Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will… — Roger Cotes

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