Appears Quotes
1196 quotes by 943 authors
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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it…
— Wentworth Miller
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It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
— Townsend Harris
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As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful…
— Dan Simmons
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God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
— Martin Buber
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Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name;…
— Laozi
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to celebrate, God is…
— Rajneesh
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much…
— Galileo Galilei
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All thoughts create thought-forms. When you think about anything, an electrical impulse is released. Its charge gathers into a form that appears clairvoyantly like a…
— Doreen Virtue
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As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished…
— Rod Dreher
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So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears…
— David Cottrell
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I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he…
— Socrates
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We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her…
— Octavio Paz
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The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days,…
— Deborah Eisenberg
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However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
— Paul Keres
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