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153 Hitherto quotes by 130 unique authors
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Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and…
— George Berkeley
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these…
— Ada Lovelace
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It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things [in Genesis] that have been named, were approved of God to be very…
— John Milton
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted…
— Georges Cuvier
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an…
— Taslima Nasrin
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Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry,…
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
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Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise,…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new…
— Robert Fisk
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Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this…
— Augustus De Morgan
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would…
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it…
— Max Planck
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The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
— Horace Walpole
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What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write)…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
— Karl Marx
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I pissed off Greeks, particularly in my family, for years to come, because I popularized the word "malaka," which hitherto had not been known outside…
— John Kapelos
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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
— David Hume
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
— Milan Kundera
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