Signify Quotes
71 Signify quotes by 65 unique authors
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all…
— Seneca the Younger
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What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
— Adam Clarke
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In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers…
— W. W. Sawyer
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I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the…
— Florence Nightingale
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Anti-Semitism does not signify opposition to Semitism. There is no such thing. It is an expression we Jews use effectively as a smear word used…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it…
— Seneca the Younger
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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify…
— Herbert Marcuse
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In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of…
— E. Cobham Brewer
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Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are…
— Thomas Hobbes
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What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?
— Georges Bataille
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs…
— Russell Kirk
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The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
— Samuel Rogers
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in…
— John Dalton
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Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
— Orhan Pamuk
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Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier?…
— Haile Selassie
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for…
— Otto Weininger
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So important , indeed, is it (Light), and so much does it pervade with its influence the whole Masonic system, that Freemasonry itself anciently received,…
— Albert Mackey
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KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does…
— G I Gurdjieff
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It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with…
— Raphael Lemkin
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