Iain Pears's Quotes

Iain Pears's Quotes 12

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean...

"Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides...

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible,...

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his...

"I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began.

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks...

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the...

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of...

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so...

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his...

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and...

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