Lecture

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Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

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Architecture

Author

Friedrich von Schelling

Source

Philosophy of Art

Medium

Lecture

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1803 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Schelling, Friedrich. Philosophie der Kunst [Philosophy of Art]. 1802-1803. Lecture series.

Current Citation

Schelling, Friedrich. The Philosophy of Art, translated by Douglas W. Stott. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt

Read the lecture "On Wit and Humour" at Project Gutenberg

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Topic

Humor Good conversation Conversation

Author

William Hazlitt

Source

On Wit and Humour

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Wit and Humour." Lectures on the English Comic Writers. c. 1818, Surrey Institution, London, England, UK.

The Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George McGovern

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Vietnam War Great Society

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George McGovern

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

McGovern, George. Speech at the University of Oxford. 21 Jan. 1973, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

T.H. Huxley

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Ideas Truth Heresy Superstition

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T.H. Huxley

Source

The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species." 19 Mar. 1880, Royal Institution, London, England, UK. Lecture.

While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

Flannery O'Connor

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American South

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Flannery O'Connor

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Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction." Dorothy Lamar Blount Lecture Series. 28 Oct. 1960, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, USA.

What experience and history teach is this-that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

G.W.F. Hegel

Read Lectures on the Philosophy of History at marxists.org

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Topic

Learning from the past History

Author

G.W.F. Hegel

Source

Lectures on the Philosophy of Wold History: Introduction

Medium

Lecture

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1830 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Current Citation

Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale; were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to God.

Epictetus

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Topic

Praising God Fulfilling one's nature

Author

Epictetus

Source

Discourses

Medium

Lecture

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

108 100s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Epictetus. Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί, Epiktētou diatribai [The Discourses of Epictetus]. c. 108, bk. 1, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Epictetus. "The Discourses." Discourses and Other Writings, edited and translated by Robert Dobbin. Penguin Classics, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 16.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

John Ruskin

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Reading Confirmation bias

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John Ruskin

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Ruskin, John. "Of Kings' Treasuries." Dec. 1864, Rusholme, Manchester, England, UK. Lecture.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid, and works its effect itself unseen.

Joshua Reynolds

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Subtlety Art

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Joshua Reynolds

Source

Discourses on Art

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1774 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VI." 10 Dec. 1774, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

We campaign in poetry. But when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose.

Mario Cuomo

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Campaign promises Political campaigns Politics

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Mario Cuomo

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Cuomo, Mario. "E Pur Si Muove." Chubb Fellowship lecture. 1 Feb. 1985, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it.

William Henry Bragg

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Science and religion Purpose of religion Religion Purpose of science Science

Author

William Henry Bragg

Source

The World of Sound

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Bragg, William Henry. "Sound in War." c. Christmas 1919, The Royal Institution, Westminster, London, England, UK. Lecture.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Common Law

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Nature of law Legal theory Law

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

The Common Law

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Lecture 1: Early Forms of Liability." Lowell Lectures. 23 Nov. 1880, Lowell Institute, Lowell, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009, lecture 1.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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Nature Actions have consequences

Author

Robert G. Ingersoll

Source

Some Reasons Why

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Christian Religion." The North American Review, Aug. 1881.

God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

William Ellery Channing

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Topic

Literature as link to the past Power of literature Books

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William Ellery Channing

Source

Self Culture

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Channing, William Ellery. "Self Culture." Franklin Lecture. Sept. 1838, Boston, MA, USA.

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Paul Tillich

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Topic

Facing death The human condition

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Paul Tillich

Source

The Courage to Be

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Original Citation

Tillich, Paul. "The Courage to Be." 1950-1951, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

Tillich, Paul. The Courage to Be. Yale University Press, 2014.

The religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion and Science

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Religion

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Alfred North Whitehead

Source

Religion and Science

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. "Religion and Science." Lowell lecture. Feb. 1925, Phillips Brooks House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in and drop out.

Timothy Leary

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Counterculture Resisting authority

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Timothy Leary

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Leary, Timothy. The Politics of Ecstasy. Ronin Publishing, 1990, ch. 21. Originally stated during a lecture, June 1966.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Politics is downstream of culture Conservatism Liberalism Political theory Politics

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Source

Family and Nation

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. "Family and Nation." Edwin L. Godkin Lecture. 1985, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music.

Joshua Reynolds

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Interconnectedness of all things Harmony Beauty of math Nature of beauty Beauty

Speaker

Joshua Reynolds

Source

Discourses on Art

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VII." 10 Dec. 1776, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

In some men only the feeble glimmerings of Taste appear; the beauties which they relish are of the coarsest kind; and of these they have but a weak and confused impression, while in others, Taste rises to an acute discernment, and a lively enjoyment of the most refined beauties.

Hugh Blair

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Topic

Taste Refinement Discernment Elitism

Author

Hugh Blair

Source

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Blair, Hugo. "Lecture II: Taste." Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. 1787, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Current Citation

Blair, Hugo. "Lecture II: Taste." Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. SIU Press, 2005.