Contingent Quotes
70 quotes by 63 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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God’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
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Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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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
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If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
— James Callaghan
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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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