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Detective fiction15 quotes

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893 How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 You see, but you do not observe. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891 It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891 It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891 All 15 quotes →

Philosophical literature10 quotes

Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities. — David Hume · 1739 Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. — David Hume · 1748 Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. — David Hume · 1739 The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. — David Hume · 1748 If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. — David Hume · 1748 An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client... Is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; And he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay... He must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate, it should unhappily be, to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection. — Henry Peter Brougham · 1820 All 10 quotes →

Travel writing8 quotes

There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879 To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1882 So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1872 Every one lives by selling something. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1892 My definition of Man is, "a Cooking Animal." The beasts have memory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook... Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats. — James Boswell · 1773 All 8 quotes →

Autobiography and memoir3 quotes

There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879 Every one lives by selling something. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1892

Political speech3 quotes

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. — Iain Duncan Smith · 2002 The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed-until the pips squeak. — Eric Geddes · 1918 I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will. — James I · 1621

Political literature2 quotes

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. — James Connolly · 1915 This happened near the core Of a world's culture. This Occurred among higher things. This was a philosophical conclusion. Everybody gets what he deserves. — Alan Bold · 1969

Science fiction1 quote

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886