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“What we do to the animals is perhaps their hell”
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“The nature of such controversies is excellently expressed, by St. Paul, in the warning and precept, that he giveth concerning the same, Devita profanas vocum novitates, et oppositiones falsi nominis scientiae.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“For this is but to dash the first table against the second; and so to consider men as Christians, as we forget that they are men. Lucretius the poet, when he beheld the act of Agamemnon, that could endure the sacrificing of his own daughter, exclaimed: Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“What would he have said, if he had known of the massacre in France, or the powder treason of England?”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“Very great, in short, is the prerogative of constitutive instances; for they are of much use in the forming of definitions (especially particular definitions) and in the division and partition of natures; with regard to which it was not ill said by Plato, "That he is to be held as a god who knows well how to define and to divide.”
― The New Organon: True Directions concerning the interpretation of Nature
― The New Organon: True Directions concerning the interpretation of Nature
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