Intrinsic Quotes

216 quotes by 172 authors

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI
Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche.… — Nick Cave
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. — Noam Chomsky
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a… — Bernard de Mandeville
Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with… — Nelson Mandela
The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from… — Robert Stawell Ball
It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white. — Shirley Manson
The planetary-etheric body is whole, unbroken and continuous; of this etheric body, those of the healer and patient are intrinsic parts... — Alice Bailey
This is what I call understanding. If you understand, insecurity is an intrinsic part of life - and good that it is so, because it… — Rajneesh
You simply pour, it will come. And if it is not coming, nothing to be worried about - because a lover knows that to love… — Rajneesh
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains in its intrinsic… — Rajneesh
Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature. — Rajneesh
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet… — Lord Chesterfield
Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus… — Ken Wilber
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of… — James Jeans
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. — G. H. Hardy
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,… — Luis Walter Alvarez
Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.… — Bertrand Russell
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance… — George Santayana

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