However, you are right, I know, and I am wrong.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

When I am away at Rome, I keep and govern my house, and the conveniences I there left; see my walls rise, my trees shoot, and my revenue increase or decrease, very near as well as when I am there: “Ante oculos errat domus, errat forma locorum.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

From what has been said it is evident that, both as regards intuitive knowledge and as regards derivative knowledge, if we assume that intuitive knowledge is trustworthy in proportion to the degree of its self-evidence, there will be a gradation in trustworthiness, from the existence of noteworthy sense-data and the simpler truths of logic and arithmetic, which may be taken as quite certain, down to judgements which seem only just more probable than their opposites.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

It was reiterated with the utmost confidence month after month, until so much alarm was excited that many families packed up their goods, and removed into Kent and Essex.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

He fixed his eyes on Mary, and replied— ‘I knows a nicerer.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Whether he questions the average man, or even the specialist in canoe magic and carving, to this he will always receive in Kiriwina a negative answer.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

"Dead, marm--stone dead--dead as a door-nail," returned the captain, who saw a relief in killing as many as possible.
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper

These driven south by the Ráthoḍs in the end of the twelfth century are the Gohils of Piram, Bhávnagar, and Rájpipla in Káthiáváḍa and Gujarát.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

Nees von Esenbeck Nemes, E. Neo-Kantians Nettleship, R.L. Neudecker Newton, Isaac Nichol Nicolai, F. Nicolas of Cusa Nicole Nielsen, R. Niethammer Nietzsche, F. Niphus Nippold Nizolius, Marius Noack, L. Noiré, L. Nolen Nominalism in Hobbes in Locke of Berkeley of Hume Noumena See also Phenomena, Things in themselves Novalis Nyblaeus, A. Occam Occasionalists Oischinger Oken, L. Oldendorp Ontological argument, the in Descartes in Spinoza in Leibnitz in Kant Opel, J.O. Opposites the unity of, in Nicolas of Cusa in Schelling the reconciliation and identity of, in Hegel Optimism in Voltaire of Leibnitz of Schleiermacher Opzoomer, C.W. Oratorians Oersted, H.C. Oswald, James Oettingen, A. von Pabst, J.H. Paley, W. Pantheism of Nicolas of Cusa of Spinoza Malebranche's "Christian" in Toland Berkeley's tendency to of Holbach in Fichte in Schelling in Schleiermacher Fortlage's transcendent of Strauss the theistic school on See also Hegel, Panthelism Panthelism of Fichte in Schelling of Schopenhauer See also Ethelism Pappenheim Paracelsus Parker Pascal, Blaise Patritius, Franciscus Paulsen, F. Paulus Pertz Pessimism of Schopenhauer of Hartmann Pesch Pestalozzi, J.H. Peters, K. Pfleiderer, E. Pfleiderer, O. Phenomena and things in themselves in Kant and representation in Kant and things in themselves in Herbart in Schopenhauer in Lotze See also Noumena, Things in themselves Physical Science concepts of modern Newton's development of its influence on philosophy in XIX century Pico, Francis, of Mirandola Pico, John, of Mirandola Pierson Pietsch, T. Planck, A. Planck, K.C. Platner Platonists Pletho, G.G. Plitt Ploucquet Plümacher, O. Poiret, P. Pollock, F. Pomponatius, Petrus Porter, N. Positivism in Italy of Comte of Comte's followers in England in Sweden, Brazil, and Chili in Germany Prantl Prel, K. du Price, Richard Priestley, J. Prowe, L. Psychology the associational the sensationalistic of Leibnitz of Wolff of Tetens Kant on rational constructive the basis of philosophy in J.F. Fries and Beneke of Beneke of Fortlage of Herbart of Comte physiological folk-psychology of Spencer See also Ego, Mind and Body, Soul Pufendorf, Samuel Pünjer, B., works by Quaebicker, R. Qualities Primary and Secondary, so termed by Boyle Locke's doctrine of Kant's relation to Berkeley's co-ordination of Quesnay Rabus, L. Ragnisco Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée) Rationalism and Empiricism in Locke in Leibnitz in Tschirnhausen in others of the German Illuminati in relation to Kant Rauwenhoff Ravaisson, F. Realism of Herbart the "transfigured," of Spencer the "transcendental realism" of Hartmann Rée, P. Regius Regulative and constitutive principles, in Kant Rehmke, J. Rehnisch Reichlin-Meldegg, K.A. von Reicke, R Reid, Thomas Reiff, J.F. Reimarus Reinhold, E. Reinhold, K.L. Relativity of Knowledge in Comte of Sir Wm.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

Thórd smiled, and replied: ‘I know a good way; make a shirt for him with an opening of divorce, and declare thyself separated from him for this reason.’
— from The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

"At any rate I know a mind that ought to be quarantined—when I smell it."
— from The Hungry Heart: A Novel by David Graham Phillips

For there came to meet the ghost of the great lord a long procession of shapes that seemed ghosts also—shapes risen out of the dust of cemeteries: warriors in created helmets and masks of iron and breastplates of steel, girded with two swords; and spearmen wearing queues; and retainers in kamishimo; and bearers of hasami-bako.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

That he should have no want of assistance, a civil gentleman, called a Resident, is kept at his court, who, under pretence of providing duly for the pay of these troops, gets assignments on the revenue into his hands.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Because these thinkers have lived and worked, their contemporaries and successors think more clearly, feel more intensely, and are richer in knowledge and self-consciousness.
— from The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Max Beer

A healthy young animal as unsophisticated as a kitten, and really innately kind and innocent of intent to flatter.
— from Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs

but, according to Von Bülow and Ramann, " Ihr könnt alle nichts!
— from Franz Liszt by James Huneker