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Arthur Balfour has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Enthusiasm moves the world.
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
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Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and…
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its…
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Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.…
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Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his…
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Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process
— Gerald Edelman
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This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the…
— William Harvey
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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.
— Aristotle
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
— Benjamin Cardozo
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,…
— Arthur Balfour
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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the…
— Aristotle
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So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving…
— Erasmus Darwin
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But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person…
— Orson Scott Card
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Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become,…
— Julian Barnes
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I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in…
— Walter Scott
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