"A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what……" — Roger Scruton

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• The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we… — William James
• No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its… — Seneca the Younger
• The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the… — Bernard Lazare
• No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. — Arthur Schnitzler
• Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. — Ovid
• The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his… — Alexander Pope
• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. — Seneca the Younger
• The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of… — Havelock Ellis
• By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve… — Winston Churchill
• Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that… — Miguel de Cervantes
• Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world… — Mariella Frostrup

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