Qua Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and…
— Aristotle
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key,…
— Karen Armstrong
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our…
— Stephen Ambrose
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A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes…
— Maureen O'Hara
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The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is…
— Ayn Rand
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Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis…
— Terence McKenna
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Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated…
— Mary McCarthy
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Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
— Arthur Laffer
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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
— Janet Malcolm
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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes…
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities…
— Will Self
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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets…
— John Dewey
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Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
— Arthur Miller
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The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But…
— Rollo May
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Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We…
— Marvin Minsky
Who Wrote These Qua Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Qua Quotes as follows: