Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one… — William James Copy Share Image
Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity. — Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf Copy Share Image
Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
