Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poland does not want to remain a net recipient of EU subsidies forever. On the contrary: we want the right to develop… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real… — Edward Britton Copy Share Image
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
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