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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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I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a…
— Michael Dorris
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Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along…
— Paul Simon
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their…
— Werner Herzog
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Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence
— Milan Kundera
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The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by…
— Hermann Broch
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To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is…
— M.C. Escher
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Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
— Unknown Author
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Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father.…
— Milan Kundera
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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to…
— Maggie Q
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Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,…
— David Hume
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The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is…
— James Ellroy
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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
— Charles Jencks
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