No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience. — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
In my career I have had many wonderful things happen to me, many more than I ever dreamed would ever happen. But… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but… — Philo Copy Share Image
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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