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
Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years;… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In marriage, at home and everywhere else, one is to remain superfluous. That is where people go in deep into; that is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
“This MS. was read, and contents thereof disapproved, by Peter Zudotyeshin. M. M. M. M. Dear Sir, Peter Zudotyeshin, My dear Sir.” — Ivan Turgenev 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
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a… — William Shakespeare 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
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
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
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
