We see then that a concept is not general because of being abstracted from several objects; but conversely, because generality, that is to say, non-determination of the particular, belongs to the concept as an abstract idea of the reason, different things can be thought by means of the same one.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Dílì ni madala ug kumpirinsiya, alsamyintúhun lang nátù ni, A conference is no good.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The ancestral cult is not greatly developed, or even presented under a characteristic form, except in advanced societies like those of China, Egypt or the Greek and Latin cities; on the other hand, it is completely lacking in the Australian societies which, as we shall see, represent the lowest and simplest form of social organization which we know.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

And therefore I maintain that I am right, Simmias and Cebes, in not grieving or repining at parting from you and my masters in this world, for I believe that I shall equally find good masters and friends in another world.
— from Phaedo by Plato

To be that, it is necessary that, in the same time in which the preceding state existed, its opposite could have existed in its place; but such a cognition is not given us in the mere phenomenon of change.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Two of the party, indeed, a male and female, belonged to the native owners of the soil, being Indians of the well-known tribe of the Tuscaroras; while their companions were—a man, who bore about him the peculiarities of one who had passed his days on the ocean, and was, too, in a station little, if any, above that of a common mariner; and his female associate, who was a maiden of a class in no great degree superior to his own; though her youth, sweetness and countenance, and a modest, but spirited mien, lent that character of intellect and refinement which adds so much to the charm of beauty in the sex.
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

A great deal of activity and conviviality, if not gayety, was the result, and more apparently important affairs were neglected by many a farmer, shopkeeper, and professional man, to insure his being elected a 'Guardian,' while the unsuccessful took pains to prove their indifference, or to vent their ill-humour in various ways, sometimes causing less innocuous effects than the following sally:— "At a certain court of quarter sessions, during the dog-day heat of one of these contests, a burly fellow was arraigned before 'their worships' and the jury, charged with some petty theft; and as he perceived that the proofs were incontestably clear against him, he fell into a very violent trepidation.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

We were all laughing, for the aviation corps is never gloomy.
— from My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer

“And next you must have a creditor to make you bankrupt, and unless he thinks there is some stuffing in you or wool on your back a creditor is not going to waste his time and money making the likes of you bankrupt.”
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

[Pg 434] The date of this document, which is only a copy, is not given, but as it refers to two transactions in real estate, which were dated respectively in the 5th and 6th years of Nero, and as that monarch’s reign began in October of the year 54 A. D. , it is probable that this is a copy of an enrolment made in connection with the census of 62-63 A. D.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

[Pg xiv] MANSFELD AND CHRISTIAN IN NORTH GERMANY.
— from The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

In some sections transplanting machines (Fig. 20) are used and liked, but most planters prefer to set by hand and the additional cost is not great.
— from Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato by W. W. (William Warner) Tracy

And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is subscribed by a clear majority of the congregation.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

They are renowned for their pamphlets, in which philosophers of every class are charged with prejudice, conceit, and ignorance, and denounced for their want of candour and consistency in not giving audience to the projector of the last best demonstration.
— from Scientific Studies; or, Practical, in Contrast with Chimerical Pursuits by Henry Dircks