"When a man lives 'according to man' and not 'according to God' he is like the Devil. (Augustine 300).
"Our corruptible body may be a burden on our soul; on the other hand, the cause of this encumbrance is not in the nature and substance of the body, and, therefore, aware as we are of its corruption, we do not desire to be divested of the body but rather to be clothed with its immortality."
Saint Augsutine
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things".
René Descartes, Discourse on the Method and Meditation on First Philosophy
"Good education and upbringing, when they are preserved, produce good natures, and useful natures, who are in turn well educated, grow up even better than their predecessors, both in their offspring and in other respects, just like other animals" (Plato, 99).
"If you reflect, first, that the part of the soul that is forcibly controlled in our private misfortunes and that hungers for the satisfaction of weeping and wailing, because it desires these things by nature, is the very part that receives satisfaction and enjoyment from poets, and, second, that the part of ourselves that is best by nature, since it hasn't adequately educated either by reason or habit, relaxes its guard over the lamenting part when it is watching the sufferings of somebody else" (Plato, 277).
"Be kind, resourceful, beautiful, friendly, have initiative, have a sense of humour, tell right from wrong, make mistakes, fall in love, enjoy strawberries and cream, make some one fall in love with it, learn from experience, use words properly, be the subject of its own thought, have as much diversity of behaviour as a man, do something really new" (Turing, 12).
Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command.-Adam Smith
The rapidity with which some of the operations of those manufacturers are performed, exceeds what the human hand could, by those who had never seen them, be supposed capable of acquiring.
"In almost every other race of animals each individual, when it is grown up to maturity, is entirely independent, and in its natural state has occasion for the assistance of no other living creature."
"The Wealth of Nations" -Adam Smith (Chapter 2, second paragraph)
"The result is that no one notices how everyone's individual judgements are ruining the common good for them all" (Thucydides, 33).
"And so by fateful chance the Negro folk-song---the rhythmic cry of the slave --- stands to-day not simply as the sole of American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experiences born this side the seas." (Du Bois, 241).