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  • In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , May Quotes
  • Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Spring Quotes , Knowledge Quotes
  • Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Knowledge Quotes
  • Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Knowledge Quotes