Empty Quotes

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends. — Seneca the Elder
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard… — Al Smith
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with… — Isak Dinesen
Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty.… — Rajneesh
Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed… — Rajneesh
Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to… — Rajneesh
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It… — G I Gurdjieff
My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure. — William Shakespeare
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed.… — Maggie Stiefvater
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace… — Frank I. Cobb
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very… — Samuel Johnson
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of… — Seneca the Younger
Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens… — Holly Near
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can… — Immanuel Kant
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into… — Luigi Pirandello
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing… — Thomas Browne
Empty pockets make empty heads. — William Carlos Williams

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