Properly Speaking Quotes

26 quotes by 21 authors

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. — Thomas Carlyle
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by… — Claude Bernard
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought… — John Henry Newman
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking,… — Adam Smith
Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire,… — St. Vincent
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead… — David Bentley Hart
Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy… — Julius Wellhausen
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. — Pierre Bayle
Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to… — Richard Le Gallienne
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which… — George Orwell
Properly speaking, all true work is religion. — Thomas Carlyle
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of… — Henry David Thoreau
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is… — Charles Sturt
It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now… — Thomas Aquinas
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the… — Haruki Murakami
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and… — Sigmund Freud
Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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