I had arrived at the conclusion that, in matters directly concerning the people, no reliance could be placed on reason or wisdom, but only on sheer force supported by fanaticism or absolute necessity; but the course of events in Vienna, where I saw the youth of the educated classes working side by side with the labouring man, filled me with peculiar enthusiasm, to which I gave expression in another popular appeal in verse.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

For as instinct is an action, like that which is guided by the conception of an end, and yet is entirely without this; so all construction of nature resembles that which is guided by the conception of an end, and yet is entirely without it.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

To the savage the world in general is animate, and trees and plants are no exception to the rule.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

O'er these waste downs whereon I lost myself, Then were I glad of you as guide and friend:
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

All great periods of culture have been periods of political decline; that which is great from the standpoint of culture, was always unpolitical—even anti-political.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Eleven thousand mettled steeds From famous lands, of noble breeds— These will I gladly give, O thou Devoted to each holy vow.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

CHAPTER IV The Malay Pantheon [ Contents ] ( a ) Gods A careful investigation of the magic rites and charms used by a nation which has changed its religion will not unfrequently show, that what is generally called witchcraft is merely the débris of the older ritual, condemned by the priests of the newer faith, but yet stubbornly, though secretly, persisting, through the unconquerable religious conservatism of the mass of the people.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Ben Oliel , a well-known family in Oran, North Africa, has given to the Church three sons about the middle of the eighteenth century, baptized by the Wesleyans in Gibraltar.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

What did his policy matter [ 127 ] to her, what did the whole Dutch policy matter, which aims at securing the position of the Javanese nobility, through whom it governs the population?
— from The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

behold, the world is gone after him.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 43: John by Anonymous

I have also told him that he would be pleased to hear that the Bishop of Oxford says it is the most unphilosophical (Another version of the words is given by Lyell, to whom they were spoken, viz.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

“He gets 'em cheaper that way, I guess.”
— from Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

You will then be in plenty of time, if inclined, to join in the expedition against the French on Fort George, or in that which is going to march on Niagara.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

President Cleveland has proved himself better than his party, and has done and said some good things which I give him full credit for, but the instincts of his party are against him, and must eventually prove too strong for him, and, instead of his carrying the party, it will be likely to carry him.
— from Reform and Politics Part 2 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII by John Greenleaf Whittier

The first three chapters of Genesis are as Occult as that which is given in Paper I. For the terrestrial Paradise is the Womb, says Simon, 807 Eden the region surrounding it.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

" Tiens ," he said, "and the wheel, it goes round?
— from Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell