Qua Quotes

22 Qua quotes by 21 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival". — Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society. — Arthur Laffer
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. — Janet Malcolm
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
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. — Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
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
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. — Arthur Miller
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
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
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
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation -… — Noah Feldman
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as… — Seth Shostak

Who Wrote These Qua Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Qua Quotes as follows: