Once the concept of “nature” had been opposed to the concept of “God,” the word “natural” necessarily took on the meaning of “abominable”—the whole of that fictitious world has its sources in hatred of the natural (—the real!—), and is no more than evidence of a profound uneasiness in the presence of reality....
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Moreover, no matter how prone a modern generation may be to disregard such things, the mere fact that they may have existed as a secret racial ideal for centuries is a powerful argument for their respectable acceptance, if not active execution, by the generation that now is.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

, The ring (ball) is round. — ang búla still in the running, all is not lost.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And thus the practical idea is always in the highest degree fruitful, and in relation to real actions indispensably necessary.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I felt an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security, when I knew that there was a stranger in the room, an individual not belonging to Gateshead, and not related to Mrs. Reed.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

When, however, the brain is brought into play through some other particularly intense stimuli, it is unable to contribute that unconscious cöoperation and hence the reflex action is not performed.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I can easily suppose that his age may appear much greater to you than to my mother; but you can hardly deceive yourself as to his having the use of his limbs!" "Did not you hear him complain of the rheumatism? and is not that the commonest infirmity of declining life?" "My dearest child," said her mother, laughing, "at this rate you must be in continual terror of MY decay; and it must seem to you a miracle that my life has been extended to the advanced age of forty.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

At last it becomes plain that the right answer is negative.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

And as Magnetism may be intended and remitted, and is found only in the Magnet and in Iron: So this Virtue of refracting the perpendicular Rays is greater in Island-Crystal, less in Crystal of [Pg 374] the Rock, and is not yet found in other Bodies.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Should you not rather expect to find difficulties in the revelation as in Nature?’
— from Rationalism by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

It is well known that he was exceedingly anxious to serve on the Labour Commission, but Ministers have always been unwilling that the Heir-Apparent should take an active part in matters connected, even indirectly, with politics, and he has had, therefore, constantly to play the part of the Sovereign’s deputy without the responsibilities and interests naturally attaching to the position.
— from His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Marie Belloc Lowndes

A larger and larger proportion of the energy given out in trade competition is consumed in [363] violent warfare between trade rivals, and is not represented either in advancement of industrial arts or in increase of material wealth.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

Supposing, for example, that at the close of a social meal in the country, you should be sitting at table with your guests, on the eve of their departure from your hospitable roof: if, under these circumstances, some nice little fellow, who has lately rushed into the room, and is now busily employed with a bunch of grapes, should be called upon by you to join in the general expression of regret that your friends are to leave you to-morrow, he may perhaps say, "Yes, papa, we shall have no grapes after dinner to-morrow." XXIII.
— from Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters Also, Miseries of Fishing by Richard Penn

No sooner was he satisfied that his enemy meant to charge boldly the obstacle in front, than he too, urged no less by vanity than hatred, made up his mind, while he caught hold of the black horse's head, to ride at it, neck-or-nothing, and take his chance!
— from Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

For three sins have I this penance to perform, one of omission and two of vanity; out of absence of mind I forgot to say a mass for which I had been paid, and I have been too vain of my fine white hands and beautiful flowing beard, and for this reason am I now compelled to suffer these torments.
— from Tales and Legends of the Tyrol by Günther, Marie A., countess

Some such distinction, I think, is necessary in order to understand the ethical outlook of mysticism: there is a lower mundane kind of good and evil, which divides the world of appearance into what seem to be conflicting parts; but there is also a higher, mystical kind of good, which belongs to Reality and is not opposed by any correlative kind of evil.
— from Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

The enfranchisement of women means the end of the Republic as it now is; it means the rejection of all theories that are found wanting, and the putting out on the vast uncharted sea of experiment; it means interference with those great business enterprises that have built up, I had nearly said that 'make and preserve us a nation'!
— from An American Suffragette by Isaac Newton Stevens