He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thank God there has been no recurrence of 9/11. It is not because of luck - it is because of mass sacrifice… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“eternal recurrence means that every time you choose an action you must be willing to choose it for all eternity. And it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image