Sense Bases

Famous quotes containing the words sense and/or bases:

“Then let us pray that come it may,—
As come it will for a’ that,—
That sense and worth, o’er a’ the earth,
May bear the gree, an’ a’ that.
For a’ that, and a’ that,
It’s comin’ yet, for a’ that—
That man to man, the warld o’er,
Shall brithers be for a’ that.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”
—Paul Deman (1919–1983)