Herbert Spencer Quotes
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer
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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
Heraclitus
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Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.
Paul Auster
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To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities- truthfulness and unselfishness, a readiness to put one's own pleasures aside for that of others, to be courteous to all, kind to those younger than yourself, helpful to your parents, even if helpfulness demands some slight sacrifice of your own pleasure. . .you must remember that these two qualities are the signs of Christian heroism.
G.A. Henty
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There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people. . .
Aristotle
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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
Aristotle
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I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine
Nadia Bolz-Weber