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- It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.…
- I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity…
- The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be…
- It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting…
- The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
- We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp…
- To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
- I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to…
- As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend…
- The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
- But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower…
- Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
- When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed…
- Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to…
- To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
- The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle