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Edmund Selous quote: "Mere facts are for children only. As they begin to point towards conclusions they become food for men."

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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objec...
EDMUND HUSSERL
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essent...
EDMUND HUSSERL
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reali...
EDMUND HUSSERL
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the ...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of st...
EDMUND HUSSERL
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherei...
EDMUND HUSSERL
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
EDMUND HUSSERL
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
EDMUND HUSSERL
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
EDMUND HUSSERL
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness throug...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which...
EDMUND HUSSERL
At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, proc...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Obje...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Experience by itself is not science.
EDMUND HUSSERL
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
EDMUND HILLARY
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worke...
EDMUND HILLARY
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
EDMUND HILLARY
I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there'...
EDMUND HILLARY
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
EDMUND HILLARY
I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevas...
EDMUND HILLARY
The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
EDMUND HILLARY
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be ta...
EDMUND HILLARY
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
EDMUND HILLARY
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
EDMUND HILLARY
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
EDMUND HILLARY
I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
EDMUND HILLARY
It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
EDMUND HILLARY
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all fea...
EDMUND HILLARY
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this moun...
EDMUND HILLARY
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
EDMUND BARTON
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference ...
EDMUND BARTON
Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
EDMUND BARTON
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of ed...
EDMUND BARTON
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
EDMUND BARTON
She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE
By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassin...
EDMUND MORGAN
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
EDMUND BURKE
The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses...
EDMUND WALLER
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER
The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
EDMUND BURKE
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
EDMUND BURKE
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
EDMUND BURKE
Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their c...
EDMUND PHELPS
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point...
EDMUND WHITE
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting...
EDMUND MORRISON
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER
Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSER
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
EDMUND SPENSER
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
EDMUND SPENSER
Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
EDMUND SPENSER
Anger manages everything badly.
EDMUND SPENSER
There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]
EDMUND SPENSER
Although the last, not least.
EDMUND SPENSER
In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city withou...
EDMUND WHITE
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE
All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE
You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
EDMUND MUSKE
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
EDMUND SPENSER
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those...
EDMUND ROSTAND
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
EDMUND BURKE
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must ...
EDMUND BURKE
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve...
EDMUND BURKE
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

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