Arthur Oncken Lovejoy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.
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More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.
-- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
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Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
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Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.
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A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.
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My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred
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What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour
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Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
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Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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