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"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."
Science
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge
"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
Business
"Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth."
Time
"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
Men
"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
Education
"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards."
Time
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Man
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
Knowledge
"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
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