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Type: Philosopher Quotes Category: Scottish Philosopher Quotes Date of Birth: June 20, 1723 Date of Death: February 22, 1816 Nationality: Scottish Find on Amazon: Adam Ferguson Related Authors: Friedrich Nietzsche Thomas Carlyle Plato Aristotle Blaise Pascal Francis Bacon Bertrand Russell George Santayana |
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. Adam Ferguson Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. Adam Ferguson Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. Adam Ferguson The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. Adam Ferguson The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. Adam Ferguson |
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