The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.


Edmund Spenser

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Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
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EDMUND HUSSERL
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objec...
EDMUND HUSSERL
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essent...
EDMUND HUSSERL
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reali...
EDMUND HUSSERL
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the ...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of st...
EDMUND HUSSERL
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherei...
EDMUND HUSSERL
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
EDMUND HUSSERL
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
EDMUND HUSSERL
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
EDMUND HUSSERL
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness throug...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which...
EDMUND HUSSERL
At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, proc...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Obje...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Experience by itself is not science.
EDMUND HUSSERL
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
EDMUND HILLARY
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worke...
EDMUND HILLARY
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
EDMUND HILLARY
I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there'...
EDMUND HILLARY
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
EDMUND HILLARY
I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevas...
EDMUND HILLARY
The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
EDMUND HILLARY
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be ta...
EDMUND HILLARY
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
EDMUND HILLARY
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
EDMUND HILLARY
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
EDMUND HILLARY
I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
EDMUND HILLARY
It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
EDMUND HILLARY
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all fea...
EDMUND HILLARY
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this moun...
EDMUND HILLARY
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
EDMUND BARTON
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference ...
EDMUND BARTON
Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
EDMUND BARTON
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of ed...
EDMUND BARTON
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
EDMUND BARTON
She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE