Rests Upon Quotes

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what… — Victor Hugo
The greatest events that have been spoken of by all the Holy Prophets will come along so naturally as the consequences of certain causes, that… — George Q. Cannon
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their… — John B. S. Haldane
A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men,… — John Jay Chapman
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. — Thomas Jefferson
The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter. — Keith Carter
Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience… — Albert Schweitzer
Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system… — Joseph Fort Newton
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for… — Calvin Coolidge
We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it… — Ramana Maharshi
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about… — Cornelius Van Til
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he… — Georg Simmel
To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. — Julius Wellhausen
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder… — Morris Kline
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them,… — Albert Schweitzer
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that… — Theodore Roosevelt
If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves. — Frederick Lenz
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss. — Ouida
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be. — James Anthony Froude

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