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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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Knowledge Nothing Science World
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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