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For thus it is written:—Whatsoever is exalted among men is despicable before God. And again it is written:—Everyone who exalts himself shall be abased, and everyone who humbles himself shall be exalted. Also Jeremiah said:—Let not the
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“A talent for following the ways of yesterday’, declared King Wu-ling in 307 BC, ‘is not sufficient to improve the world of today.”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
“I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.”
― Feel Free: Essays
― Feel Free: Essays
“Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“If one could know whether among that glittering host there were here and there other spirit-inhabited grains of rock and metal, whether man’s blundering search for wisdom and for love was a sole and insignificant tremor, or part of a universal movement!”
― Star Maker
― Star Maker
“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.”
― Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
― Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
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