I E Quotes
277 quotes by 230 authors
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In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the…
— Rudolf Steiner
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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite…
— Leo Tolstoy
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[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and…
— Martin Luther
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I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word of mouth concerning…
— Martin Luther
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One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate…
— Ayn Rand
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The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things…
— Meher Baba
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While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called…
— Justus von Liebig
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And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics] has been instigated…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.…
— Tycho Brahe
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The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given…
— Robert Mayer
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There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither…
— Roy Crowson
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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It…
— Anthony of Sourozh
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To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms,…
— Henry Lipson
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In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an…
— Michael Denton
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"The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e. Islam). As such…
— Vernon Richards
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E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.
— George Carlin
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Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The…
— Ibn Hazm
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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