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«There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Arguments,
Information,
Principles
| Keywords:
Against the man, arguments, bar, barred, barring, contempt, everlasting, fail, information, investigation, investigations, principle, prior, proof
«The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution -- this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.»
«This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.»
Author: Thomas Traherne
(Mystic, Poet)
| Keywords:
duration, everlasting, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, region, The Everlasting, wherein
«Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| About:
Education,
Life,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
antagonism, antagonisms, directed, educational, everlasting, foreign, of necessity
«The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.»
«The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? / Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? / Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: / But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.»
Author: Bible
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cattle, deep water, drank, everlasting, Hast, Jacob, Our Father, springing, spring water, thereof, The WELL, whence
«QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
commonly, equivalent, everlasting, goose, implement, implemented, implementing, implements, obsolete, pen, quill, quills, steel, The Quill, torture, wield, wielded, wields, yielded
«There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
boundless, breadths, depths, everlasting, fragmented, fragmenting, fragments, fruits, gather, heights, in breadth, in truth
«The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
absurd, bliss, dependence, everlasting, Ignorance is bliss, insanity, merits, mixture, mixtures, notion, observation, refutation, refutations, relieved, relieving, rewarded, unhappy
«The treasury of everlasting joy.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
everlasting, Treasuries, treasury
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