“An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.” WorldShouldLongDesireBeliefChildhoodSceneOne DayFancyEnthusiasticVisitingOld WorldEarly Childhood Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.” PersonsDoeIdeasFactsBeliefExistenceAtheismCrimeAtheistPositive AtheismCommitFancyIncapableInsultingBlasphemyBinge Author:George William Foote
“New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.” WorldHas BeensYoungBeliefLosingDoctrineFancyNewness Author:Madame de Stael
“My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.” PeopleMindChildrenHappensBeliefLossDisasterFancyMisfortunesClingingMenaceSweeping Author:Sylvia Pankhurst
“I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.” MindHumansDoeSeemsBeliefMy OwnOpinionOffersArgumentRootsProductionsEaseDiscussionFancySoilHuman MindContrastPropositionsPenetrateFind MeSuitableExtravagantFrivolousGreat FreedomDeep Roots Author:Michel de Montaigne