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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to… — David Hume
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many… — Amartya Sen
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and… — William Whewell
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich. — Seneca the Younger
The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself… — Baruch Spinoza
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to… — Henri Nouwen
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. — William Penn
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of… — George Orwell
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love)… — Thomas Aquinas
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive. — John Thomas Sladek
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known… — Richard P. Feynman
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own… — John Buchanan Robinson
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana
When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was… — Isadora Duncan
That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — Patrick Henry
It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our… — Rebecca Adamson
Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own. — Nirmala Srivastava
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He… — Henry Ward Beecher

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