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3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of… — Oswald Chambers
All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas. — Hakuin Ekaku
Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will… — Orson Pratt
One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries… — Robert Rauschenberg
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an… — Isaiah Berlin
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make… — Honore de Balzac
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a… — Mary McGrory
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain
Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings. — Billy Graham
Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one. — Winston Churchill
Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with wonder at this… — Pope John Paul II
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely… — Vernon Howard
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone… — Murray Rothbard
Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups,… — Robert Kennedy
You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete. — Wallace D. Wattles
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of… — Ellsworth Huntington
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed… — Francois Jacob
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it… — Lewis Thomas
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique… — Lewis Thomas
Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives. — Kofi Annan
It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure... — Paul Simon

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