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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. | Alexander Pope | [
"wisdom"
] |
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? | Alexander Pope | [
"future"
] |
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. | Alexander Pope | [
"education"
] |
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. | Alexander Pope | [
"truth"
] |
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more. | Alexander Pope | [
"nature"
] |
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! | Alexander Pope | [
"god",
"nature"
] |
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. | Alexander Pope | [
"god",
"nature"
] |
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. | Alexander Pope | [
"education"
] |
The most positive men are the most credulous. | Alexander Pope | [
"men",
"positive"
] |
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can. | Alexander Pope | [
"women"
] |
For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best. | Alexander Pope | [
"best",
"government"
] |
To err is human to forgive, divine. | Alexander Pope | [
"forgiveness"
] |
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. | Alexander Pope | [
"love"
] |
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. | Alexander Pope | [
"business"
] |
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. | Alexander Pope | [
"hope"
] |
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. | Alexander Pope | [
"hope"
] |
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. | Alexander Pope | [
"faith"
] |
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. | Alexander Pope | [
"change",
"great",
"nature"
] |
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. | Alexander Pope | [
"nature"
] |
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel. | Alexander Pope | [
"best"
] |
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. | Alexander Pope | [
"men"
] |
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit. | Alexander Pope | [
"art",
"science"
] |
Health consists with temperance alone. | Alexander Pope | [
"alone",
"health"
] |
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. | Alexander Pope | [
"fear"
] |
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. | Alexander Theroux | [
"pet"
] |
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. | Alexander Theroux | [
"marriage"
] |
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. | Alexander Woollcott | [
"government",
"work"
] |
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. | Alexander the Great | [
"knowledge",
"power"
] |
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. | Alexander the Great | [
"knowledge"
] |
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. | Alexander the Great | [
"teacher"
] |
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. | Alexandre Dumas | [
"alone"
] |
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. | Alexandre Dumas | [
"education"
] |
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. | Alexandre Dumas | [
"failure"
] |
All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope. | Alexandre Dumas | [
"hope",
"wisdom"
] |
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. | Alexandre Dumas | [
"happiness"
] |
Nothing succeeds like success. | Alexandre Dumas | [
"success"
] |
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. | Alexandre Vinet | [
"courage"
] |
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. | Alexis Carrel | [
"society"
] |
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. | Alexis Carrel | [
"knowledge",
"science"
] |
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. | Alexis Carrel | [
"beauty"
] |
The quality of life is more important than life itself. | Alexis Carrel | [
"life"
] |
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. | Alexis Carrel | [
"morning"
] |
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. | Alexis Carrel | [
"power"
] |
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. | Alexis Carrel | [
"jealousy"
] |
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. | Alexis Carrel | [
"peace",
"religion",
"strength"
] |
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. | Alexis Korner | [
"legal"
] |
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"power"
] |
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"men"
] |
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"politics"
] |
Life is to be entered upon with courage. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"courage",
"life"
] |
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"business",
"equality"
] |
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"great",
"men"
] |
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"society"
] |
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"money"
] |
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"war"
] |
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"equality"
] |
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"money"
] |
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"men",
"politics"
] |
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"business",
"positive"
] |
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"health",
"society"
] |
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"equality",
"freedom"
] |
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"freedom"
] |
He was as great as a man can be without morality. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"great"
] |
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"history"
] |
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"society"
] |
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"government"
] |
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"government"
] |
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"future"
] |
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"religion"
] |
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"faith"
] |
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"great"
] |
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"freedom",
"war"
] |
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"best"
] |
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"war"
] |
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too. | Alexis de Tocqueville | [
"men"
] |
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. | Alfred Adler | [
"art",
"experience",
"power"
] |
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. | Alfred Adler | [
"truth"
] |
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. | Alfred Adler | [
"war"
] |
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. | Alfred Adler | [
"experience",
"failure",
"success"
] |
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. | Alfred Adler | [
"freedom",
"truth"
] |
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. | Alfred Adler | [
"future",
"war"
] |
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. | Alfred Adler | [
"relationship",
"society"
] |
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. | Alfred Adler | [
"nature",
"peace",
"science"
] |
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. | Alfred Adler | [
"truth"
] |
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. | Alfred Adler | [
"death"
] |
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. | Alfred Adler | [
"patriotism"
] |
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. | Alfred Adler | [
"politics",
"war"
] |
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. | Alfred Adler | [
"family"
] |
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. | Alfred Adler | [
"god"
] |
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. | Alfred Adler | [
"war"
] |
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. | Alfred Adler | [
"life"
] |
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. | Alfred Austin | [
"society"
] |
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. | Alfred Austin | [
"gardening"
] |
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. | Alfred Austin | [
"gardening",
"nature"
] |
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. | Alfred Austin | [
"wisdom"
] |
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. | Alfred Austin | [
"gardening",
"nature"
] |
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough. | Alfred Eisenstaedt | [
"alone",
"work"
] |
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. | Alfred Eisenstaedt | [
"fear"
] |
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. | Alfred Hitchcock | [
"movies"
] |
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. | Alfred Hitchcock | [
"best"
] |