Derived Quotes
319 quotes by 268 authors
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God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several…
— Philip K. Dick
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The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for…
— Bertrand Russell
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This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
— Christopher Hitchens
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[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have…
— John Adams
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The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It…
— Carl Jung
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Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really…
— Grant Morrison
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Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are…
— Amin Maalouf
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
— Jules Verne
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As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner…
— Richard Carlson
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Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God…
— Brennan Manning
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It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents…
— Katherine Boo
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It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived…
— C.S. Lewis
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Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built…
— Adolf Hitler
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Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones.…
— Ruskin Bond
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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
— Bertrand Russell
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What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable objects of their…
— Unknown Author
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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
— William Hazlitt
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268 authors contributed a total of 319 Derived Quotes, led by these top contributors: