Closely Allied Species

Famous quotes containing the words closely, allied and/or species:

    “Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Thus all probable reasoning is nothing but a species of sensation. ‘Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy, When I am convinc’d of any principle, ‘tis only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)