Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you… — Martin Villeneuve Copy Share Image
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing… — David Korten Copy Share Image
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast;… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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
Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about — Salvatore Ferragamo Copy Share Image
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh.… — Hermann Buhl Copy Share Image
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them. — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us. — Kenneth Boa Copy Share Image
Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“ Two contrary reasons . We must begin with that, otherwise we cannot understand anything and everything is heretical. And even at… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
