Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not… — James Madison Copy Share Image
By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a convinced and consistent critic of party-parliamentarism. I am for non-partisan elections of true people's representatives who are accountable to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
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