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Henry Thomas Buckle has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal…
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Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of…
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The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to…
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The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion,…
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If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you…
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In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king,…
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Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.
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The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good…
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Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed,…
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First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.
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Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed,…
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