Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury quotes
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“As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself”
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“Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.”
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“All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.”
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of ShaftesburySource : "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper; Edition by Philip Ayres (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; "Sensus Communis", 1711.
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“Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.”
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Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.”