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“To love a thing means wanting it to live.”

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The book is a collection of Confucius's sayings and discussions with his disciples, covering various aspects of ethics, politics, and philosophy. more

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Confucius

Confucius, also known as Kong Qiu or Zhongni, was a great philosopher, educator, and politician during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. He advocated for benevolence, rule of propriety, and the doctrine of the mean, and his thoughts have had a profound impact on Chinese and world culture. more

“Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.”

Years Mean Science Used Time Names Hours Common Example Months Flow Absolutes Mathematical Relative Sensible Precise Measurement Duration

Book:Newton: Philosophical Writings

Source: Newton: Philosophical Writings

“Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.”

Years Science Billions Cells Carrie Ancestor Experimentation

Author:Max Delbruck

“The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.”

Men Years Earth Wealth Sun Wind Thousand Wave Heat Fuel Substitutes Exhausted Minerals

Book:Under the Apple-Trees

Source: Under the Apple-Trees

“[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.”

Men Years Would Be Science Death Lying Loss Pay Drink Taxes Profit Graves Enormous Lying Men

Book:The Works of Anton Chekhov

Source: The Works of Anton Chekhov

“[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.”

World Years Science Humanity Water Natural Dollars Plant Thirty Natural World Scots

Author:E. O. Wilson

“A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.”

Book Quotations

Author:Thomas Love Peacock

“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

Men Hands Fine Fool Wit Diamond Quotations Fooled Pebbles

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.”

Giving Pleasure Inspiring Heard Quotations Poor Richard

Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“I quote others in order to better express myself.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

Ifs Lines Ashamed Quotations Citing

Author:Seneca the Elder

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