Consist Quotes

317 Consist quotes by 250 unique authors

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action. — Woodrow Wilson
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by… — Gautama Buddha
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these… — Isaac Newton
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In… — Carl Jung
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. — Louise Erdrich
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support. — Robert W. Floyd
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of… — Friedrich Engels
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind… — Ludwig von Mises
There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling… — L. Ron Hubbard
When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true… — Zhuangzi
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is. — P.J. O'Rourke
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. — David Hume
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. — Soren Kierkegaard
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of… — Maimonides
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. — Gustave Courbet
Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. — Brent Scowcroft
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the… — Alfred Marshall
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them… — Alfred Marshall
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude...… — Adolf Hitler
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members,… — Charles Hodge
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the… — Mary Douglas

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