Hence Quotes
772 Hence quotes by 523 unique authors
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
— Aldous Huxley
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at…
— Aldous Huxley
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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do…
— E. Stanley Jones
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be…
— Franz Kafka
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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union…
— Franz Kafka
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have…
— Curtis LeMay
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When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary…
— Haniel Long
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an…
— H. L. Mencken
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
— H. L. Mencken
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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I…
— Edvard Munch
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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about…
— Talcott Parsons
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women…
— Frances Perkins
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
— Carl Rogers
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
— Marquis de Sade
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Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
— George Bernard Shaw
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
— Sivananda
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a…
— Herbert Simon
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Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within…
— Thomas Sowell
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The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have…
— Lysander Spooner
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
— Wallace Stevens
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Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of…
— Thomas Szasz
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