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How strange is the blindness of men in our age! They boast of their knowledge, and are ignorant of everything, since they are ignorant of themselves.
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1809)
To burn a city, there is needed only a child or a madman; but to rebuild it, architects, materials, workmen, money, and especially time, will be required.
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1809)
Never have nations been civilized, except by religion.
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1809)
The eighteenth century, which distrusted itself in nothing, as a matter of course, hesitated in nothing.
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1809)
Nothing great has great beginnings.
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1809)
If we do not return to the old maxims, if education is not restored into the hands of priests, and if science is not every where placed in the second rank, the evils which await us are incalculable: we shall become brutalized by science, and this is the lowest degree of brutality.
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1809)
The question is frequently asked: why there is a school of theology attached to every University? The answer is easy: It is, that the Universities may subsist, and that the instruction may not become corrupt. Originally, the Universities were only schools of theology, to which other faculties were joined, as subjects around their Queen. The edifice of public instruction, placed on such a foundation, has continued even to our day. Those who have subverted it among themselves, will repent it, in vain, for a long time to come. To burn a city, there is needed only a child or a madman; but to rebuild it, architects, materials, workmen, money, and especially time, will be required.
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1809)