Existing Quotes
728 quotes by 600 authors
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One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human…
— John Gresham Machen
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I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew…
— Maria V. Snyder
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That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward…
— Lauren Oliver
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Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population,…
— Mark Levin
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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which…
— Isaac Newton
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there…
— Alain de Botton
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Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak…
— Carl Jung
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There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...
— Sarah McLachlan
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But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she…
— Cecelia Ahern
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...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want…
— Ellen Hopkins
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For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is…
— P D Ouspensky
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The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years…
— Adolf Hitler
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We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another.…
— Gore Vidal
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You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for…
— Karl Marx
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
— Denis Diderot
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I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink…
— Kiera Cass
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
— Nhat Hanh
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