Such Quotes
16024 Such quotes by 7769 unique authors
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(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all…
— Samuel Clarke
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When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore…
— Lewis Carroll
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are…
— William Blackstone
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(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.
— Matthew Tindal
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The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's…
— Alice Waters
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One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching…
— Swami Vivekananda
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That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism…
— Will Durant
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't…
— Barry Commoner
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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs…
— Prince Charles
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Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in…
— Dr. Seuss
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We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a…
— Ian Cohen
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I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say…
— Tim Costello
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If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and…
— Pope John Paul II
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The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one…
— George W. Melville
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What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch…
— William Shakespeare
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All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs,…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,…
— Ruth Pitter
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Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for…
— Arthur Compton
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The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto…
— Karl Barth
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When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
— C.S. Lewis
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