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Quote 3621
All that he had left was a little house in a desolate place at least a hundred leagues from the town in which he had lived, and to this he was forced to retreat with his children, who were in despair at the idea of leading such a different life.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3618
That is to eat thee up.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3616
That is to hear the better, my child.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3602
But if the belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence, the pleasure is a stolen one.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3601
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3598
It leaves us bare and powerless where we thought that we were safe and strong.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3597
It is true that this duty is a hard one, and the doubt which comes out of it is often a very bitter thing.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3595
How are we to face our queen, said the three mice, when by our folly we have lost the talisman and condemned our people to be utterly exterminated?by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3591
Atisha! atisha! sneezed the old man, but he did not wake, and the shock made the bronze ring jump out of his mouth.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3590
What is to be done? said the Queen.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3588
Give me only the bronze ring which can instantly grant me anything I wish for.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3581
It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3579
Man is a part of Nature, not something contrasted with Nature.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3577
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3575
There is always a suggestion of some sort, either the end of a train of thought or a new sensation; and there is an action ensuing, either the movement of a muscle or set of muscles, or the fixing of attention upon something.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3574
The most curious point about the Cabinet is that so very little is known about it.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3572
The object is in constant change.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3571
There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution - a Constitution that is in actual work and power.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3567
How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3564
I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3552
I have kept nothing of what I have said or written.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3551
Whether I was right or wrong at this time or that interests me no longer, since it all belongs to the past.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3534
There was a miller who left no more estate to the three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and his cat.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3533
In this place you may fearlessly stay.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3528
A celebrated physician has just come from Janina in Albania. He alone can cure the King and give him back the strength of his youth.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3527
For your reward you must demand the bronze ring which has the power to grant you everything you desire.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3526
It would be no exaggeration to say, that the sole encouragement now left to authors to produce good books is the satisfaction of their own conscience.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3525
The two things which never seem to be considered are the interests of Literature and the interests of the public.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3524
A man who posed as an authority on all the literatures of the world, and on the history of every nation in the world, would be very justly set down as an impostor.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3523
In everything but in criticism it is necessary to specialize.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3522
Books, on the other hand, of unusual and distinguished merit are despatched summarily in a few lines of equally undeserved depreciation.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3521
Books displaying in their writers the grossest ignorance of the very rudiments of the subjects treated, and literally swarming with blunders and absurdities, all of which pass undetected and unnoticed, are made the subjects of elaborate panegyrics.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3520
They will pose as authorities and pronounce ex cathedrâ on subjects literary, historical, and scientific of which they know nothing more than what they have contrived to pick up from the works which they are "reviewing."Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3519
They will sit in judgment on books written in languages of whose very alphabets they are ignorant.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3518
Without standards, without touchstones, without principles, without knowledge, it appears to be regarded as the one calling for which no equipment and no training are needed.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3517
Criticism is to Literature what legislation and government are to States.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3516
There it is worse than presumption to believe.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3515
It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3513
We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3511
It is our duty to act upon probabilities, although the evidence is not such as to justify present belief.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3510
The beliefs about right and wrong which guide our actions in dealing with men in society, and the beliefs about physical nature which guide our actions in dealing with animate and inanimate bodies, these never suffer from investigation; they can take care of themselves.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3509
So closely are our duties knit together, that whoso shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3503
I seldom tire of retracing with my own hand the ipsissima verba whereby great and truly notable gifts have been bestowed upon nations or Universities or even municipalities for the advancement of learning and the spread of science.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3502
The books and manuscripts being thus for sale, the wooden shelves, desks, and seats of the old library, and for the most part the contents of the library had been rescued from miserable ill-usage in the monasteries and chapter-houses where they had their first habitations.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3501
They were barbarians and wreckers.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3500
Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3498
Sir Thomas Bodley's Library at Oxford is, all will admit, a great and glorious institution, one of England's sacred places.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3497
It is perhaps best not to make too great demands upon our slender stock of deep emotions.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3495
The Bodleian at this moment harbours within its walls well-nigh half a million of printed volumes, some scores of precious manuscripts in all the tongues, and has become a name famous throughout the whole civilized world.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3491
The human machine is an apparatus of brain and muscle for enabling the Ego to develop freely in the universe by which it is surrounded, without friction.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3490
And when I say "the human machine" I mean the brain and the body—and chiefly the brain.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3489
The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude is to me repugnant.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3488
I cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3487
No newspaper reading in trains!by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3486
I will defy you to account to me on the spur of the moment for the other eight hours.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3485
He has a solid coin of time to spend every day—call it a sovereign.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3484
So let us begin to examine the budget of the day's time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3483
You can only waste the passing moment.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3482
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3481
We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3480
You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3479
The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3478
Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3476
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3468
The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 3467
The earth seemed unearthly.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3156
It is wrong always, everywhere and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3133
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3112
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3065
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fablesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3054
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Showing Quotes on reality
Quote 3045
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3029
A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.Showing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3027
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happenShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 3003
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived itby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2868
I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same stateShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2828
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tuneby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2823
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against itby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2789
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysicsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2785
The real truths are those that can be inventedby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 2752
What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.by: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2731
I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must beby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2707
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated itby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2683
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of lifeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2544
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its authorShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2536
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happenShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2518
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not triedShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 2495
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glassby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2489
Every man is a volume, if you know how to read himShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2472
Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earthShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 2365
They that have lived a single day have lived an ageShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2354
We come too late to say anything which has not been said alreadyShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2341
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truthShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2312
The reality is, all over the country the number of people in the homeless condition continues to grow. It will grow significantly as far as the eye can see. It's near crisis right now. It will certainly get thereby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 2289
But facts are facts and flinch notby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 2265
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and trueby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on reality
Quote 2189
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its placeShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2156
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realitiesShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2133
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?by: Joseph ButlerShowing Quotes on reality
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Quote 2110
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really doesby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on reality
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