Present Quotes
6568 quotes by 3495 authors
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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
— Sigmund Freud
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This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in…
— John B. Watson
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The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think…
— Warren Buffett
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We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us…
— Unknown Author
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No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same…
— Unknown Author
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Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has…
— Alexander Lowen
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Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core…
— David Hawkins
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The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others…
— Adi Da
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It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one…
— Eckhart Tolle
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers…
— Pope John Paul II
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We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.
— Solanus Casey
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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles,…
— Oscar Wilde
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live…
— Gautama Buddha
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