Quote #46

The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.

More from Edmund Burke

  1. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
  2. The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pai…
  3. A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins,…
  4. Custom reconciles us to every thing.
  5. 'War,' says Machiavel, 'ought to be the only study of a prince;' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He oug…
  6. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
  7. The art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
  8. I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

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