Quotes Tagged With :1840

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which....

Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments....

The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste....

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to....

In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great....

A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but little....

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the....

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic,....

Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they....

Although a little noisy at first, in a bizarre twist of fate, electronic music became popular in France....