Precedes Quotes

136 quotes by 116 authors

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. — Rita Mae Brown
There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him… — Clarence Budington Kelland
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration… — Woodrow Wilson
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One… — Henri Matisse
The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes,… — Rajneesh
Man's existence precedes his essence — Jean-Paul Sartre
A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes. — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
The vision always precedes reality. — Leon Tom
Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on both the sides… — Rajneesh
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one. — Tom Hanks
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective. — Ryan Holiday
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes… — Gunter Grass
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every… — Soren Kierkegaard
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the… — Gautama Buddha
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture. — Chuck Missler

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