“Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

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“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so...”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor of the couch of the goddesses.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are abloom with flowers.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“There will always be a great difference between subduing a multitude and ruling a society.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“The moment we recognize that the self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action, the whole situation clears up.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter, but he never felt the law.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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