Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
On slavery, in a letter to John Holmes (22 April 1820)
1820s
“They offer me neither food nor drink — intellectual nor spiritual consolation… [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilisation which we have already attained.”
On the Conservative Party; Skidelsky (1992:231) quoting Collected Writings Volume IX page 296-297
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Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930) British Conservative politician and statesman
Theism and humanism
Context: Romantic love goes far beyond race requirements. From this point of view it is as useless as aesthetic emotion itself. And, like aesthetic emotion of the profounder sort, it is rarely satisfied with the definite, the limited, and the immediate. It ever reaches out towards an unrealised infinity. It cannot rest content with the prose of mere fact. It sees visions and dreams dreams which to an unsympathetic world seem no better than amiable follies. Is it from sources like these—the illusions of love and the enthusiasms of ignorance—that we propose to supplement the world-outlook provided for us by sober sense and scientific observation?
Yet why not? Here we have values which by supposition we are reluctant to lose. Neither scientific observation nor sober sense can preserve them. It is surely permissible to ask what will.
“We should neither bemoan nor naively idealize this new reality. We should deal with it.”
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
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“Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (April 9, 1889)
Letters