Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway quotes
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“For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which has no vital principle of motion in it; but it is a living body which has life and perception, which are much more exalted than a mere mechanism or a mechanical motion.”
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“Spirit and body differ not essentially, but gradually.”
-- Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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“The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.”
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Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.
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