Abandonment Quotes
154 quotes by 147 authors
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
— Julian Huxley
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful…
— Lloyd deMause
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we…
— Francis of Assisi
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the…
— R. D. Laing
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred…
— Patrick Henry
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I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.
— Tilda Swinton
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Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect…
— Michael Robotham
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Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that…
— Dana Perino
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
— Norm MacDonald
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My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when…
— Therese of Lisieux
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The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.
— Theodor Adorno
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
— Tatum O'Neal
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