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Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaisé d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: C'est ce de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: The thing I fear most is fear

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: If it is pleasing to observe in nature her desire to paint God in all his works, in which we see some traces of him because they are his images, how much more just is it to consider in the productions of minds the efforts which they make to imitate the essential truth, even in shunning it, and to remark wherein they attain it and wherein they wander from it, as I have endeavored to do in this study.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons, over whom you reign in your way. These men are full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire; it is desire that binds them to you. You are therefore properly the king of desire. Your kingdom is of small extent; but you are equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth: they are like you the sovereigns of desire. It is desire that constitutes their power; that is the possession of things that men covet.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: It is necessary to have regard to the person whom we wish to persuade, of whom we must know the mind and the heart, what principles he acknowledges, what things he loves; and then observe in the thing in question what affinity it has with the acknowledged principles, or with the objects so delightful by the pleasure which they give him.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: Do not imagine that it is less an accident by which you find yourself master of the wealth which you possess, than that by which this man found himself king.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discriminate them; and it is certain that they are all natural and within our reach and even known to all mankind.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: “It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.

Description: John Dewey quote: t is no accident that all democracies have put a high estimate upon education; that schooling has been their first care and enduring charge. Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase. Accidental inequalities of birth, wealth, and learning are always tending to restrict the opportunities of some as compared with those of others. Only free and continued education can counteract those forces which are always at work to restore, in however changed a form, feudal oligarchy. Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Description: John Dewey quote: A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance or connections they do not perceive.

Description: John Dewey quote: The true antithesis of nature is not art but arbitrary conceit, fantasy, and stereotyped convention.

Description: John Dewey quote: It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well-put is half-solved.

Description: John Dewey quote: Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

Description: John Dewey quote: Works of art express space as opportunity for movement and action.

Description: John Dewey quote: The rise of new science in the seventeenth century laid hold upon general culture in the next century. The enlightenment... testified to the widespread belief that at last light had dawned, that dissipation of ignorance, superstition, and bigotry was at hand, and the triumph of reason was assured -- for reason was counterpart in man of the laws of nature which science was disclosing. The reign of law in the natural world was to be followed by the reign of law in human affairs.

Description: John Dewey quote: Freedom of thought and of expression are not mere rights to be claimed. They have their roots deep in the existence of individuals as developing careers in time. Their denial and abrogation is an abdication of individuality and a virtual rejection of time as opportunity.

Description: John Dewey quote: Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Description: John Dewey quote: The mystery is that the world is at it is -- a mystery that is the source of all joy and all sorrow, of all hope and fear, and the source of development both creative and degenerative. The contingency of all into which time enters is the source of pathos, comedy, and tragedy.

Description: John Dewey quote: Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.