Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Copy Share Image
I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
I know the women in the Trump Corporation, have gotten to know them very well recently. Obviously, let the record reflect it… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million. — Joe Louis Copy Share Image
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship… — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image