Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

12-Jan-1729

Ireland

Philosopher

Born in 1729 in Dublin, Edmund Burke was the son of an Irish diplomat who grew up in a multicultural society. Although he was raised in the Protestant religion of his father, his mother was a Catholic, and in his youth Burke was sent to Quaker boarding school. This upbringing symbolized Burke's recent confession of religious tolerance.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

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"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

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"Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one."

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"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

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"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

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"Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength."

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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

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"Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth."

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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]"

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