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Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences…
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an…
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The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there…
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What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify…
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None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.
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Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it
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The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to…
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The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble…
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Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but…
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,…
— Sissela Bok
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an…
— Mary Midgley
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There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
— Robert Smith Surtees
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Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of…
— Charlotte Mason
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There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies…
— Confucius
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A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and…
— George Savile
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God helps three sorts of people: fools, children and drunkards
— Proverb
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