Superfluous Quotes

155 quotes by 133 authors

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament… — Ludwig Quidde
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes,… — Charles Caleb Colton
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous — Albert Einstein
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not… — Francis Parker Yockey
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. — C.S. Lewis
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. — Ezra Pound
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and… — Noam Chomsky
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat. — Seneca the Younger
Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them. — Saint John Chrysostom
Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud. — Saint Augustine
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. — Marcus Aurelius
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. — Karl Marx
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that… — Thomas Aquinas
I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure,… — Saul Bellow
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the… — Paulo Coelho
Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine… — Charles Spurgeon
Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings… — Leonardo da Vinci
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one… — Pablo Picasso

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