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«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»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Christianity,
Liberty,
Religion
| Keywords:
Americans, combine, combines, conceive, conceive of, intimately, notions, The Americans
«The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.»
Author: Byron R. White
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
clause, courts, court of law, due process, due process clause, essentially, invalidate, invalidated, invalidating, notions, representing
«The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.»
«There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
controlling, notions, obedience, preserving, There Is Nothing Left, unseen
«The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| Keywords:
conservative, crimes, culture, notions, sacred, seeks, uncertainty
«The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; not to burden memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
conscientious, definite, fervent, impartial, ineradicable, inquiringly, inspire, instruction, inward, judging, notions, offered, outward, peculiar, quicken, quickening, quickens, regularities, regularity, religious instruction, religious sect, religious truth, sect, stamp, steadily, stir, stir up, strengthen, subjects, The Quickening
«They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things / and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning / all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything / they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
disposition, equal to, exalted, excessively, hopeful, humbled, moreover, notions, overdo, overdoes, overdoing, overdone, regulated, vehemently
«The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.»
«The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.»
«The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Happiness,
Life,
Nature,
Quality,
Thought,
Virtue
| Keywords:
accordingly, entertain, guard, notions, reasonable, take care, unsuitable
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