Hence Quotes
772 Hence quotes by 523 unique authors
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Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover replied, 'It is…
— Unknown Author
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The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's…
— Albert Einstein
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by…
— Evelyn Underhill
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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
— Gilles Deleuze
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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured…
— Evelyn Underhill
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We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.
— Charles Taylor
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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own…
— Adrienne Rich
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Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the…
— John Owen
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Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically…
— Noam Chomsky
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Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,'…
— Albert Camus
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It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.
— William Shakespeare
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When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.
— William Shakespeare
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So…
— Naomi Wolf
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The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even…
— Bertrand Russell
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The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs…
— Maya Angelou
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Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit…
— Novalis
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To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his…
— Aesop
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The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences,…
— Christopher McCandless
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To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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