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- When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree…
- The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they…
- Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
- And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in the history of…
- Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two…
- Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more…
- Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,…
- Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
- Every cause produces more than one effect.
- The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation…
- When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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