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Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

“We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.”

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Nicolas Chamfort, born on April 6, 1741, and died on April 13, 1794, was a prominent French writer and poet of the 18th century, known for his unique literary style and profound thoughts. more

“The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.”

Thinking World Moving Objects Universal Aim Appearance Thoughtful Sensible Timeless

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“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.”

Freedom Honor Resolve

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“He that cannot paint must grind the colors.”

Color Paint Grind

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“This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!”

World Imagination Sleep Secret Known Sea This World Discovery Built Fairs Green Islands Fairy Sunlight Communion Foul

Author:J. G. Holland

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