Constituted Quotes

136 quotes by 119 authors

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more… — Mikhail Bakunin
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was… — John le Carre
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of… — John Berger
He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Past and future monopolize the poetâ€™s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops… — Andre Breton
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and… — Oscar Wilde
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but… — Martin Luther
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity… — Tom Robbins
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of… — Gilles Deleuze
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,… — Charles Dickens
Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself. — Sigmund Freud
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing… — Louis de Bernieres
I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could… — Jim Butcher
In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound… — Charlaine Harris
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. — Henry Miller
It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals. — Virginia Woolf
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings. — Melford Spiro

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