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“The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.”

Quote by Edmund Burke

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Written by a renowned philosopher, the book examines the nature of the sublime and beautiful, their psychological effects, and their role in shaping human aesthetics and ethics. more

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Edmund Burke, a British statesman and writer, was born on January 12, 1729, and died on July 9, 1797. He was one of the most prominent political thinkers of the 18th century, known for his profound insights into liberty, democracy, and conservatism. more

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“For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.”

Teaching Grew Approach Method Convinced Serving Investigation Barren Lifeless Methods Of Teaching

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.”

Men Want Mind Ideas Teaching Taught Ought Originals Compelled Original Ideas Rectitude

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.”

Fellowship Treason

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.”

Men May Truth Speak Cases Economy Virtue Exercise Delusion Falsehood Speak The Truth Temperance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.”

Deals Fashion Ancient Tyranny Torn Furniture Rags

Book:The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds

“It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.”

Thinking Men Want Firsts Desire Method Ill Contrary Tyranny Oppression Sufficient Frustration Attributes Moderation Oppressors Rigor

Book:The Portable Edmund Burke

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke

“Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.”

May Use Perfect Opposites Ugly Proportion Ugliness

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.”

Happens Sin Greater Ambition Vanity Folly Mischief Avarice Meanness

Author:Edmund Burke

“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.”

Men Evil Names Causes Wise Vices Permanent Organs Remedy Occasional Transitory

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.”

Source: The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India