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Tertullian has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he…
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your…
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,…
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment…
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,…
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In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet…
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
— Walter Bagehot
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe…
— Josh Billings
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part…
— Bill McKibben
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look…
— Robert Southey
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I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
— J. Frank Dobie
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Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see…
— James Jeans
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To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the…
— Robin G. Collingwood
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