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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever…
— Adolf Hitler
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If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone
— Saint Augustine
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A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true…
— John Loengard
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[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
— James Madison
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The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public,…
— James Madison
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Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk…
— Halle Berry
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God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.
— William of Ockham
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In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are…
— Stanislaw Ulam
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People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.
— Peter Kreeft
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