"You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality."
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"It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love."
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"The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary."
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"The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment."
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"Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction."
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"The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth."
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"Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science."
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"Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation."
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"One must have first of all a solid foundation."
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"Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj."
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"A solid foundation for children involves a solid moral base"
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"Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone"
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"Consistency is the foundation of virtue."
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"The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted."
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"The foundation of justice is good faith."
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"The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues."
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"To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation."
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"Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy."
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"A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted."
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"I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery."
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