To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to change. “Repent” is its most frequent message, and repenting means giving up all of… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
[Genderless marriage] is contrary to God's law, to revealed Word. Scripture, ancient and modern, could not be clearer on the definition that… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul. — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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