What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“What is exact meaning of 'relative'? Superfluous [that which is superficial].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Listening to Aunt Eliza, one could learn that when people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.” — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
“Cut everything superfluous,' Pound had said. 'Go in fear of abstractions. Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.” — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to… — William James Copy Share Image
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria… — Nils Kjaer Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn't surprise me. It would be just like Him. It would be totally… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press. — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image