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Apr 27, 2024 · Emily Elizabeth Dickinson ( December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some ...
Mar 17, 2024 · A [edit]. Philosophy … consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907), Ch. XXIV.; Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the ...
Apr 26, 2024 · A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton ( 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.
Apr 5, 2024 · Misattributed [edit] "There is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night". False quote, misattributed to Voltaire by Yuval Noah Harari in his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Apr 19, 2024 · Quotes about Kant [edit] Alphabetized by author . The slow progress towards juster international relations may be traced to the distinguished jurist of the Netherlands, Grotius; to the great German, Immanuel Kant, who lifted the subject of “Eternal Peace’ high above controversy; to Count Tolstoy of Russia, who so trenchantly set it forth in our own day, and so on throughout the nations.
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May 17, 2024 · Letter (8 November 1952); published in Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), p. 247. I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
