For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
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Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
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Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wonder if anyone will know what I mean when I say that some people make the world seem like a large… — Tales of Mere Existence Copy Share Image
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior… The mere fact that a school… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if… — Paul J. Crutzen Copy Share Image
An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
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