Rather Quotes
10955 quotes by 6293 authors
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We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
— PZ Myers
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Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.
— Charlie Haas
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Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling…
— Aristotle
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317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is…
— G. H. Hardy
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Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and…
— Baltasar Gracian
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's…
— Ralph Chaplin
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When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has…
— Jason Black
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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
— Jane Rule
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The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation…
— R C Sproul
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
— Seneca the Younger
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
— Meister Eckhart
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become…
— Joseph Butler
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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world…
— John Searle
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...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest…
— G. E. M. Anscombe
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We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
— Martin Heidegger
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It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
— Seneca the Younger
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I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.
— Alberto Salazar
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If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should…
— Grete Waitz
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The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a plane of Nature which is…
— William Walker Atkinson
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