William Fleming quotes
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“The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.”
-- William FlemingSource : William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.230
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“Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.”
-- William FlemingSource : William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.95
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“The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.”
-- William FlemingSource : William Fleming (1857). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.264
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“Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.”
-- William FlemingSource : William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.409
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“Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.”
-- William FlemingSource : William Fleming (1858). “Vocabulary of Philosophy Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical by William Fleming”, p.410
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“Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.”
-- William Fleming
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.”
Source : Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia
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“I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.”
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Source : "Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture". August, 1933.
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“In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.”
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“There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.”