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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.


William Gilbert


#common #conjectures #demonstrated #discovery #experiments

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.


Asa Gray


#basis #beliefs #class #facts #held

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.


Lawrence Halprin


#done #draw #finally #get #give

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.


Aldous Huxley


#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.


Abraham Lincoln


#philosophical #politics #religion #religious #inspirational

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.


Sebastian Barry


#death #life #philosophical #thoughts #death

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?


Jane Campion


#ask #asking #get #guy #here

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.


Mahatma Gandhi


#even #every #every man #his #life

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.


Theophile Gautier


#animal #cat #difficult #does #friendship

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.


James Madison


#criterion #cultivate #gotten #majority #ought






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