"Victor Cousin believed that “We are constrained to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy."

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“India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.”

“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East-above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe-we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness ofthe results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

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"You have been born in this world as a human being to worship God; therefore try to acquire love for His Lotus Feet. Why do you trouble yourself to know a hundred other things? What will you gain by di…"

— Ramakrishna

Religion1836–1886

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"How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another."

— Karl Kraus

Science1874–1936

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"On its pass through finitude, the being-for-itself of the counter-image expresses itself most potently as “”I-ness”, as self-identical individuality. Just as a planet in its orbit no sooner reaches it…"

— Friedrich_Wilhelm_Joseph_Schelling

Philosophy1775–1854

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"There is a natural physiological tendency to pronounce in one breath successive groups of rhythmic feet, and the rhythmic content in the average length of breathing can only be called a verse."

— F. S. Flint

Literature1885–1960

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