"The land of scholars and the nurse of arms."

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“These little things are great to little man.”

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“And learn the luxury of doing good.”

“The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.”

“I...chose a wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.”

“But winter lingering chills the lap of May.”

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"The double meaning has been given to suit people's diverse intelligence. The apparent contradictions are meant to stimulate the learned to deeper study."

— Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

Philosophy1126–1198

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"Spirit is knowledge; but in order that knowledge should exist, it is necessary that the content of that which it knows should have attained to this ideal form, and should in this way have been negated…"

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy1770–1831

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"Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance."

— Ian Hacking

Philosophy1936–2023

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"I say that Auschwitz is an extreme manifestation of an attitude that still thrives in our midst. It shows itself in the treatment of minorities in industrial democracies; in education, education to a …"

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

Philosophy1924–1994

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