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“He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.”

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Leopold von Ranke, born on December 21, 1795 and died on May 23, 1886, was a prominent German historian. Known for his rigorous empirical approach to historical research, Ranke had a profound impact on the field of history in the 19th century. more

“It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world. To those who have and hold a sense of the significance of form what does it matter whether the forms that move them were created in Paris the day before yesterday or in Babylon fifty centuries ago? The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.”

“Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.”

Men Needs Might Animal Higher Machines Ghost Leap Denied Hypothesis Mammals

Book:The Concept of Mind

Source: The Concept of Mind

“Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.”

Records Chronicles

Book:The Concept of Mind

Source: The Concept of Mind

“The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.”

Machines Ghost Dogma

Author:Gilbert Ryle

“Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.”

Soul Body Destiny Solitude Absolutes

Book:The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition

Quote by Leopold von Ranke

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