"Life may be defined to be the power……" — Augustus William Hare
"Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live."
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Augustus William Hare
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67 Quotes by Augustus William Hare
Augustus William Hare has 67 quotes on this site.
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The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was…
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of…
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The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to…
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In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but…
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in…
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Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
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I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above…
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We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to…
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More Assimilation Quotes
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land…
— Rand Paul
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has…
— Justin Martyr
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If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can…
— Allan W. Eckert
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
— William McKinley
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Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy,…
— Zack de la Rocha
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
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The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each…
— Randolph Bourne
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and…
— William McKinley
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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