Contingent Quotes

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory… — Charles Baudelaire
When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and… — Nhat Hanh
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green… — Alfred Leslie Rowse
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and… — Dan Barker
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
The only feasible solution is a political reconciliation... Mr. President, the time is now to put pressure on the Iraqi government to change. That is… — Mike Coffman
Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will… — Ken Keyes Jr.
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths… — Gottfried Leibniz
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful… — Gian-Carlo Rota
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent… — H. A. L. Fisher
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from… — Morris Kline
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does… — Mother Teresa
Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it… — Stephen Batchelor
Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table… — Alice Waters
Godâ€™s eternal blessings are contingent upon our obedience and adherence to the word of the Lord that is revealed to us through His holy prophets — L. Tom Perry
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould
It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical… — Henry A. Kissinger
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. — James Callaghan
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution,… — Ernst Mayr

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