Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 December 1804
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As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
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The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
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It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
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The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
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What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
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If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
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What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?
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Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
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Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
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Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
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It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!