The process of knowledge from the general to the particular, which is peculiar to the sciences, involves the necessity that in the sciences much should be established by deduction from preceding propositions, that is to say, by demonstration; and this has given rise to the old mistake that only what has been demonstrated is absolutely true, and that every truth requires a demonstration; whereas, on the contrary, every demonstration [pg 084] requires an undemonstrated truth, which ultimately supports it, or it may be, its own demonstration.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Long before day they departed, and towards evening they reached a domain called Skaun.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

And here we shall have occasion to examine the reasons and degrees of ASSENT.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

In a certain sense yielding to the force of these arguments, they call shame modesty, pleasure joy, and timidity caution; nor would anyone blame them for this euphemism, if they only gave those specious names to the emotions that are consistent with reason, while they gave other kinds of names to those emotions that resist and do violence to reason.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The Emperor then remembered a dream he had had the year before in which he saw two men fighting for the sun.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Lady Feng pondered in her own mind that, although the most important matters connected with the funeral ceremonies had been settled satisfactorily, there were still a few minor details, for which no provision had been made, so that could she avail herself of this excuse to remain another day would she not win from Chia Chen a greater degree of approbation, in the second place, would she not be able further to bring Ch'ing Hsü's business to an issue, and, in the third place, to humour Pao-yü's wish?
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

In the conference which was held on the limits of the two empires, the Roman ambassadors degraded the personal character of their sovereign, by a vain attempt to magnify the extent of his power; when they seriously advised the Persians to prevent, by a timely accommodation, the wrath of a monarch, who was yet ignorant of this distant war.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But he fought his way to eminence through ridicule and defeat.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Man in communities has evolved ethical standards of conduct, but nations, in their dealings with one another, are still largely in a state of savage nature, and seek to establish the right, as dogs do, by the appeal to battle.
— from Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

At this moment, the Emperor heard, with much pleasure, that from the top of the church tower could be seen Davout's men arriving via Molwitten and marching towards Serpallen, from where they expelled the Russians and drove them back to Klein-Sausgarten.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de

It seems as though the power of expressing regrets and desires by written symbols were coupled with a condition that the writer should from time to time express the regrets and desires of other people; as though, like a French peasant under the old régime, one were bound to perform a certain amount of work upon the public highways .
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

A single act of thought is commonly supposed to be absolutely instantaneous; and yet presence of mind, which depends on rapidity of thought, is fully recognized as an uncommon quality, while it has now been ascertained by experiment that every thought requires a definite, and in many cases measurable, length of time for its production and exercise.
— from Essays on Darwinism by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing

The only mark of royal displeasure with which he was visited was his exclusion from the list of lords-justices appointed [Pg 136] according to custom to execute the royal authority during the King's absence on the Continent.
— from William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill

They were obliged, on their minutes of consultation, to enter their reasons and dissents; so that a man of diligence, of research, and tolerable sagacity, sitting in London, might, from these materials, be enabled to form some judgment of the spirit of what was going on on the furthest banks of the Ganges and Burrampooter.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In spite of this, the paper continued, the dead woman's husband, arriving unexpectedly on the scene, had employed by wire Samuel S. Braceway, the professional detective of Atlanta, who would reach Furmville early this morning and, probably, work with Chief Greenleaf, Mr. Bristow, and the plain-clothes squad in the effort to remove all doubts of the guilt of the accused negro.
— from The Winning Clue by James Hay

So merciful is God, that even these ruins and disappointments are all messages of His patient love to us.
— from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives by John Richard Vernon