Quotes Tagged With :1840

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

The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without....

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

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon....

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

Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy,....

Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased....

It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government....

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....