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«There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.»
Author: Al Capp
(Cartoonist)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
critique, Karl, Karl Marx, origin, searcher, the Origin
«The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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ceaselessly, decisive, human origin, origin, questioning, The opposition, the Origin
«There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.»
«There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.»
«Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
emotion, feelings, origin, overflow, overflowed, overflowing with, overflows, poetry, recollected, recollects, spontaneous, tranquility
«On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.»
Author: Arnold Palmer
(Golfer)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
Andrews, AT ST, Old Course, origin, purest, reminds, seemingly, the Origin, untouched
«The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice»
Author: Clarence Darrow
(Lawyer, Speaker, Writer)
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childish, cowardice, origin, the Origin
«The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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act as, confusion, multitude, origin, unity
«The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
anarchist, anarchists, an anarchist, common origin, origin, The Christian
«The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Atheism
| Keywords:
for the most part, hypothesis, impudent, misguide, misguided, origin, recourse, scholars, The Creation, the Origin
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