General Quotes

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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in… — Aristotle
Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it… — William Hazlitt
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time… — John Tyler
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. — Epictetus
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not… — Samuel Johnson
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. — George Carlin
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit… — H. L. Mencken
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have… — Abraham Lincoln
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results… — Thomas Jefferson
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it. — Benjamin Disraeli
Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep. — Luigi Pirandello
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not… — William Hazlitt
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle… — Joseph Addison
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is… — George Polya
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent,… — Primo Levi
It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general. — Ferdinand Foch
We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can… — Elayne Boosler

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