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  • The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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    Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

  • But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

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    Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.168, Oxford University Press on Demand

  • Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

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  • Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

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    Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.24
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Edmund Burke

  • Born: January 12, 1729
  • Died: July 9, 1797
  • Occupation: Statesman
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