Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
GALILEO GALILEIThe greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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