Quotes with ordinarily

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• Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

  Pensees (1669)

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

  T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• apprehensible
• metaphysical
• necessarily
• transformed
• discovered
• liberating

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