Either Case Quotes
38 quotes by 36 authors
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you…
— Maxwell Maltz
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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential…
— Mark Epstein
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Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either…
— Noel 'Razor' Smith
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The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment!…
— Roger A. Pielke
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The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we…
— William DeWitt Hyde
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I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into…
— Arthur Koestler
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The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is…
— Konrad Lorenz
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A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not…
— Jan Struther
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We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark…
— Walter Bagehot
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Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it
— Socrates
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Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in…
— Haruki Murakami
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Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but…
— Deepak Chopra
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Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there…
— Takuan Soho
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In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my…
— F. H. Bradley
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Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson,…
— George Friedman
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To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to…
— John Stuart Mill
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