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Discovery of
«Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.»
Author: Edgar Quinet
(Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Discovery of, sect, stand still, wishing
«What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Blessings,
Discovery
| Keywords:
Discovery of, The Discovery
«Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Guilt
| Keywords:
collective, Confessions, culprit, culprits, Discovery of, doing nothing, safeguard, The Discovery
«Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
be intimate, careful, conceal, confess, contempt, crime, crimes, discovery, Discovery of, forgiven, Friends Forever, implied, implies, implying, intimate, intimates, intimate with, intimating, pride, remembers, sillier, silliest, silly, weakness, weaknesses, wrongs
«TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
compound, desirability, Discovery of, End of time, increasing, prospect
«Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
army, barbarous, Discovery of, disgracefully, Empire, introduced, shaken, Shakespeare