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“Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.”

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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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“It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.”

People Men Years Feelings Politics Causes Behinds Fifty Speculation Generalities Misconduct

Book:The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies

Source: The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies

“I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.”

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“The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.”

Ideas Politics Names Causes Politician Hatred Terror Connected Tyranny Cruelty Fraud Statesmen Treachery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.”

Men Character Power Bottom Possession Certainty True Character

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.”

Hands Power Guilty Limitation Strict

Book:Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke

Source: Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke

“If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.”

Ifs May Order Silence Higher Circumstances Justify Reserves Our Thoughts Prudence Decorum

Book:Reflections on the French Revolution

Source: Reflections on the French Revolution

“Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.”

Causes Quality Vices Prudence Enlisted

Author:Edmund Burke

“An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.”

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Book:A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.”

Men Wells Ends Understanding Taken Failing He Man Duty Solitude Satisfaction Flying Manners

Author:Edmund Burke

“Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.”

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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