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History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow… — Philibert Joseph Roux
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life. — Thomas Jefferson
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. — Louis Agassiz
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.'… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to… — William Howard Taft
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is… — Thomas Love Peacock
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its… — Margaret Fuller
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every… — Alphonse de Lamartine
The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of… — Robert Delaunay
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a… — Henry Fielding
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species,… — Charles Dickens
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. — William James
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather… — Lysander Spooner
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their… — Thomas Jefferson
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to… — Flannery O'Connor
There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves… — Max Stirner
Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised,… — Lew Wallace
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything… — Paul Valery
History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause. — Romain Rolland
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of… — Steven Pinker
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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