Thomas Babington Macaulay Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Thomas Babington Macaulay

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Thomas Babington Macaulay