Details Of Life quotes

Details Of Life

12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist

"Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself."

Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist

"But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?"

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