Increasing Quotes

742 quotes by 631 authors

The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant â€˜identityâ€™ (â€˜this is your duty as an Americanâ€™, â€˜you must commit these acts as… — Amartya Sen
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they… — George Orwell
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in… — Eckhart Tolle
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in… — Knut Hamsun
The love of God is like himself â€“ equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves â€“ unequal, increasing, waning,… — John Owen
If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a… — Geoff Dyer
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the… — Erich Fromm
There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing… — Alice Munro
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat
You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation. — Ilchi Lee
Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown. — Chuck Palahniuk
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice… — William Shakespeare
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire… — Frederick Douglass
Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency… — David Ogilvy
When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles… — Robert E. Quinn
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer. — Eugene Ionesco
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to… — Ron Paul
It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world… — M.F.K. Fisher
However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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