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Universal Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing…
- Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.
- The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is… — Francis Bacon
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac
- We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand… — Afrika Bambaataa