Commonly Called Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

• The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. — Ludwig von Mises
• What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. — Henry Fielding
• The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be… — John Stuart Mill
• But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity… — Philip O Ceallaigh
• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to… — Samuel Adams
• If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good… — Luis Bunuel
• The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless… — Andre Breton
• What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. — Auguste Rodin
• The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that… — Jean Guitton
• What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues. — Henry David Thoreau
• Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much… — Henry R. Luce
• So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or… — Eckhart Tolle
• Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of… — Georg Ernst Stahl
• Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be… — Ann Radcliffe
• Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse.… — Marcus Aurelius
• To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray… — Andre Breton
• Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a… — Robert Cailliau
• I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never… — Harold Ford, Jr.
• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated… — Stephen Fry

Who Wrote These Commonly Called Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 33 Commonly Called Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Commonly Called Quotes by Andre Breton
• 2 Commonly Called Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Thomas Hobbes
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Lysander Spooner
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Radhanath Swami
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Charles Dickens
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by John Lubbock
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by William Nicholson
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by James Fenimore Cooper
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by John Buchanan Robinson
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Ludwig von Mises
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Henry Fielding
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by John Stuart Mill
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Philip O Ceallaigh
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Samuel Adams
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Luis Bunuel
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Auguste Rodin
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Jean Guitton
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Henry R. Luce
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Eckhart Tolle
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Georg Ernst Stahl
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Ann Radcliffe