Quotes by Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol

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National literature is the exposition of the national ideas of the people or even universal ideas. Perhaps in an entire literature the word fatherland may not be uttered even once, and yet the literature may be eminently national...

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The good, like the beautiful, can be subject to the criterion of truth: it is only what seems true to us in the moral sphere, and the beautiful what seems true to us in the aesthetic sphere...

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Truth is the most comprehensive notion that the human spirit can construct, for it reproduces adaptation to reality or to the postulates of the nation.