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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes…
— Louis Aragon
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The source of genius is imagination alone.
— Eugene Delacroix
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them…
— Eugene Delacroix
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With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
— Theodore Gericault
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I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness…
— Andre Breton
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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever…
— David Hume
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