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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything… — Jerry Brown
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy… — Thomas Browne
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such… — Franz Grillparzer
The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend… — Idries Shah
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into… — E. M. Forster
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in… — Brooks Atkinson
And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in… — Thomas Jefferson
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to… — Adolf Hitler
My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I… — Edmund Burke
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind… — John Galt
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick'… — Hans Haacke
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. — Samuel Johnson
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic… — Roger Kimball
You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work.… — Swami Vivekananda
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into… — Theodore Roosevelt
Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind — Theodore Roosevelt
Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can enter into godliness… — Henry Allen Ironside
It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they… — Bob Jones, Sr.
John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political… — Hunter S. Thompson
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged… — William E. Gladstone
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,… — William Hazlitt
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies… — Bill Vaughan

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