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Author | : Pierre Bayle |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2000-05-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791445488 |
A new translation of Pierre Bayle's first great work, which undermines the influence of "superstition" in political life and laid the groundwork for the separation of church and state.
Author | : M. Prefontaine |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2015-10-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781517675172 |
The Big Book of Quotes is a collection of over 3,500 quotations from some of the greatest minds that ever existed. This is a book which you can just pick up anytime and carry on where you left off last time. It is for those who want to pep up a speech, a presentation or an email and for those who just want to jump start their brains with thought provoking or amusing quotations. The essence of the best quotes are that they express a truth or an insight in a short and often amusing way. Thoughts expressed succinctly have tremendous power. They can inspire and motivate, they can get a message across and they can provide insight. I hope this book will prove useful, amusing and the quotes will resonate with you.
Author | : Pierre Bayle |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2000-05-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0791492737 |
"I tremble when I recall the terrible appearance [the comet] had on Saturday evening in the clear sky, when it was observed by everybody with inexpressible astonishment. It seemed as though the heavens were burning, or as if the very air was on fire...[F]rom this little star stretched out such a wonderfully long tail that even an intellectual man was overcome with trembling; one's hair stood on end as this uncommon, terrible, and indescribable tail came into view...O wonderful almighty God! The heavens show thy might and the earth thy handiwork!" — Eyewitness account of a comet which appeared over Europe on December 24, 1680 The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book's principle task was to undermine the influence of "superstition" in political life, and it was here that Bayle made the notorious suggestion, unique in the history of political thought until then, that a decent society of atheists is possible in principle. There is no other English translation of this book in print—the only other version was printed in 1708. This translation is based on a recently revised critical edition of the complete French text and includes a substantial interpretive essay that both elucidates the arguments of the work and indicates the importance of Bayle in the history of the modern Enlightenment.
Author | : M. Prefontaine |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2016-10-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781539807285 |
This is a collection of over 1100 of the smartest and most intelligent quotes ever said or written. In it you will find truth, knowledge and insight contained in short succinct quotes. If you want just one quotes book then this should be it. The book provides over 1100 selected quotes from contributors ranging from Plato to Bob Dylan. There is a wide diversity of subject and viewpoints and no matter where you turn to in the book there is something to help you become a better and more insightful person. Thoughts expressed succinctly can have tremendous power. They can inspire and motivate, and they can provide insight. They can be the best way of getting a message across in an email or in a speech. They can also just provide an interesting read for those who want to sit and digest some of the greatest thoughts from the greatest minds that ever lived.
Author | : M. Prefontaine |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-12-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781522857426 |
Optimism is a Happiness Magnet Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.Mary Lou Retton This is a book of some of the greatest inspirational quotes to help motivate the reader to be more positive about life and gain greater success and happiness as a result. Words have a power and the thoughts encapsulated succinctly can be inspirational and motivate individuals to change their lives. This book has one quote for every day of the year and I hope will prove useful, insightful and the quotes will resonate with you. It may be that one of these quotations will enable you to change your life for the better.
Author | : David Foster Wallace |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2009-04-14 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0316071005 |
In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
Author | : Kenyon College |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
ISBN | : 9780316151467 |
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously' How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion' The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
Author | : Judith Wibberley |
Publisher | : David & Charles |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-05-12 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780715329399 |
Words for Every Occasion is a valuable resource of over 400 brand new inspirational verses, sayings and sentiments, focused entirely on celebratory occasions. Every imaginable occasion is covered from birthdays to Christmas, anniversaries, new baby, Valentine?s Day and many more. Versus range from the heartfelt to the humorous, sentimental sayings presented alongside witty one-liners, there is a phrase for every possible recipient. The bonus 60 copyright-free motifs will allow crafters to decorate their projects with the perfect illustration, making this the ideal title for papercrafters.
Author | : Milton Mayer |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022652597X |
National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider.” —The New York TImes They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” These ten men were not men of distinction, according to Mayer, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. They Thought They Were Free cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil.
Author | : M. Prefontaine |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781533635686 |
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux This is a collection of the funniest quotes culled by the author from the thousands that are out there to save the reader the trouble of perusing the multitude of mediocre to find the best. This is a book which you can just pick up anytime and carry on where you left off last time. It is for those who want to pep up a speech, a presentation or an email and for those who just want to sit at home and enjoy the best humorous quotations for their own amusement. In the author's view the best humorous quotations are often those which contain an essence of truth viewed from an unexpected and quirky angle unseen previously.