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Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. — Charles Dudley Warner
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own… — John Dryden
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior… — Carlos Castaneda
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they… — H. L. Mencken
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it… — Thomas Szasz
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our… — Alan Watts
Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus… — Ken Wilber
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere… — Florence Nightingale
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you… — Tom Stoppard
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. Indeed, the whole… — Pope John Paul II
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology… — Hugh Miller
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can… — Jurgen Habermas
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but… — Werner Heisenberg

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