Famous quotes containing the words system and/or reply:
“A person, seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity: while the haughty Dogmatist, persuaded that he can erect a compleat system of Theology by the mere help of philosophy, disdains any further aid, and rejects this adventitious instructor.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in everything.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
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