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“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.”

Men Mind Humans Able Natural Subjects Mankind Objects Behavior Advantage Fellows Extraordinary Analysis Human Mind Contemplating Human Behavior Fellow Man Investigators

Book:Essential works

Source: Essential works

“Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.”

Art Certain Objects Faculty Contemplating Principal

Book:Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion

Source: Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion

“Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.”

Sometimes Faces Watches Objects Strange Personality Sight Contemplating Towers Statues Edifice Inanimate Objects

Book:Ninety-three

Source: Ninety-three

“Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzling light hung aloft as an eternal lamp to lighten the universe; let him behold the earth, a mere dot compared with the vast circuit which that orb describes, and stand amazed to find that the vast circuit itself is but a very fine point compared with the orbit traced by the starts as they roll their course on high.”

Men Looks Mean Light Eye Earth Turns Universe Courses Objects Fine Eternal Mere His Eyes Surround Contemplating Hung Amazed Lamps Majesty Lofty Dots Circuits Orbit Dazzling Orbs

Author:Blaise Pascal