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- Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
- I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because…
- The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
- The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
- The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook…
- Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
- A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is…
- Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
- Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster