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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 it, they still…
- 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
- I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a…
- Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
- A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the…
- In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.…
- Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined…
- It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
- A man posing for a painting.
- Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is…
- We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on,…
- We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation of…
- The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or…
- It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either…
- It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But…
- Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it…
- The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
- A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
- To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
- Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
- A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making…
- When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this…
- No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
- A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
- All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle