Existed Before Quotes

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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. — Saint Augustine
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is… — Rajneesh
The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long… — Leo Tolstoy
Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. [It] is immortal. You… — Gary Zukav
Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like… — Max Lerner
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… — Freeman Dyson
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before. — Millard Fillmore
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish… — E. T. Whittaker
Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the… — Marquis de Sade
I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat. — River Phoenix
Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and… — Laozi
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he… — Roger McGuinn
Geometry existed before creation. — Plato
Our modern world defined God as a â€˜religious complexâ€™ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering… — Cecil B. DeMille
The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them. — Guy Sajer
Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups,… — Jaron Lanier
I have existed before Abraham was born. — James Moffatt
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique. — Martin Buber

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