Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke St John Quotes on Philosophy
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Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
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I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
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They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
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It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.