“in order to ascertain the real opinions of such, I ought rather to take cognizance of what they practised than of what they said”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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“Perhaps a man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five known to us are destroyed and the remaining ninety-five are left alive.”

― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“We were closely pinched to bring our wants within our means; but the jail stood over the way, and I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.”

― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

“There be other simple ideas which convey themselves into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection, viz. PLEASURE or DELIGHT, and its opposite, PAIN, or UNEASINESS; POWER; EXISTENCE; UNITY mix with almost all our other Ideas.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“But a thought must directly, or indirectly, by means of certain signs, relate ultimately to intuitions; consequently, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room for stains, not the stars.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

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