"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and……" — Victor Cousin
"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is."
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Victor Cousin
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11 Quotes by Victor Cousin
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they…
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In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy;…
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the…
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When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning…
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You can only govern men by serving them.
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Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole…
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Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of…
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the…
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More Describes Quotes
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
— Anatole France
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Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
— Walter Lippmann
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model…
— John von Neumann
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It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is…
— Steven Pressfield
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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than…
— Honore de Balzac
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'
— Charles M. Schulz
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The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In…
— Robert Young
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