Ernst Cassirer Quotes

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

Ernst Cassirer

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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

Harold Ford, Jr.
- Think
- Enjoy
- Choice
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

Ian Hacking
- People
- Power
- Bad
Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Work
- Fall
- Three
Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

Sabine Baring-Gould
- Time
- Family
- Taken
The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

Victoria Pratt
- People
- Up
- Good
No decent career was ever founded on a public.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Career
- Ever
- Decent