Collected Quotes
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His imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.
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More Collected Quotes
I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.
qin shi huang— As quoted in The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006) by Clive Foss, p. 10, ISBN 1905204965
They say that these were the tribes collected by Amphiktyon himself in the Greek Assembly: ... the Macedonians joined and the entire Phocian race ... In my day there were thirty members: six each from Nikopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly...
pausanias— Description of Greece, Phokis VIII, 2 & 4 [Loeb, W. Jones]
There is no coherent knowledge, i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information, obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains.
paul karl feyerabend— pg 98, italics are feyerabends
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— 1842 The American Notebooks (published1868), ch.5.
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
joseph heller— 1961Catch-22, ch.17.
Even the categories inwhich experiences are subsumed, collected, and ordered varyaccording to the social position of the observer.
— 1936 Ideology and Utopia.
Their collected Hearts wound up with love, like little watch springs.
Sir Stephen Harold Spender— 1939 'The PastValues'.
And another question was unfortunately not asked of Göring: 'The German people put faith in you even if they doubted Hitler because you were gentlemanly and more likable. What did you, Göring, do to justify this confidence? You have led a luxurious life and collected stolen art.'
hermann göring— Hans Fritzsche, to Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946)
He stood, and heard the steepleSprinkle the quarters on the morning town.One, two, three, four, to market-place and peopleIt tossed them down.Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;And then the clock collected in the towerIts strength, and struck.
a. e. housman— No. 15 ("Eight O'Clock").
People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millennia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.
erik naggum— "Knowledge and Information"
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. …The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.
Robert Owen— 3rd Part (The Book of the New Moral World (1836-1844))
It makes not a bit of difference that Pavlov was a devout physicalist who felt that a scientific treatment of conscious experience was impossible. In time-honored scientific fashion, good data outlast the orientation of the investigators who collected them.
ivan pavlov— Bernard J. Baars, A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness (1988)
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
augustine of hippo— As quoted in Footprints in Time : Fulfilling God's Destiny for Your Life (2007) by Jeff O'Leary, p. 223.
Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.
paul karl feyerabend— Conquest of Abundance (2001, pg. 7 [posthumous])
A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.
paul karl feyerabend— pg 218 (Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous]))
If any of my readers set out with the notion that that all races of men think and act much in the same way as educated Englishmen, the evidence of superstitious belief and custom collected in this work should suffice to disabuse him of so erroneous a prepossession.
james frazer— Chapter 27, Succession to the Soul
Yes, I know , we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So sublime, my friend, that I want to gaze upon matter, fully conscious that it exists, and yet launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowl edge that Dream has no existence, extolling the Soul and all the divine impressions of that kind which have collected within us from the beginning of time and proclaiming, in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies!
stéphane mallarmé— Letter to Henri Cazalis (April 1866), published in Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé (1988), p. 60
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.
paul valéry— Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci
The Town Temple was the company’s Pagoda and most probably the management of the temple was at one time vested in the Company...a high percentage of the tolls collected in the city for the maintenance and upkeep of temples and choultries were devoted to the expenses of the Town Temple.
— Ramachandra Dikhitar, in p.57 (Diaspora of the Gods : Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World)
Jaisingh collected and studied all the available astronomical works...Several European works were translated into Sanskrit under his orders, particularly Euclid ’s elements, with a treatise on plane and spherical trigonometry ; and on the construction and use of logarithms ...and also a treatise on conical sections...maps and globes of the Ferenghis were obtained from Surat .
— G.R. Kaye, on the efforts made by Jai Singh to set up the Astronomical Observatory in Jaipur, in p.213
Jacob Leupold (1674-1727) German engineer who collected, for the first time in print, the basic principles of mechanical engineering.
— Neil Schlager (2000) Science and Its Times: 1700-1799. p. 446
The Geeta is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads .
— Swami Vivekananda, as quoted in "The Holy Geeta" Commentary by Swami Chinmayananda (1996), The Geeta as others see it
We must decide according to the intention of the legislature, which is to be collected from the general object of the Act and from the particular words used in it.
— Grose, J., Farmer v. Legg (1797), 7 T. R. 192.
It is from the words, and from the context, not from the punctuation, that the sense must be collected.
— Sir Wm. Grant, M.R., Sanford v. Raikes (1816), 1 Mer. 651; per Lord Westbury, Gordon v. Gordon (1871), L. R. 5 H. L. 276.
His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.
robert hall— Robert Hall, Apology for the Freedom of the Press, Section IV.
We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices, and private interests. By the help of these, artful men overpower their wisdom, and dupe its possessors; and if we may judge by the acts, arrêts, and edicts, all the world over, for regulating commerce, an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
— Benjamin Franklin, letter to Benjamin Vaughan, July 26, 1784; in Albert H. Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1906), vol. 9, p. 241.
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— As quoted in Footprints in Time : Fulfilling God's Destiny for Your Life (2007) by Jeff O'Leary, p. 223.
They say that these were the tribes collected by Amphiktyon himself in the Greek Assembly: ... the Macedonians joined and the entire Phocian race ... In my day there were thirty members: six each from Nikopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly...
— Description of Greece, Phokis VIII, 2 & 4 [Loeb, W. Jones]
