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463 Thereby quotes by 362 unique authors

The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests… — Kevin Myers
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter… — J. W. N. Sullivan
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at… — Alexis de Tocqueville
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter,… — David Bentley Hart
[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals… — H. L. Mencken
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the… — Baltasar Gracian
In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching… — Plato
When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the… — Josephus
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… — Thomas Carlyle
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,… — Luc de Clapiers
I see BLK DNM more as a creative project than a traditional fashion brand. The world doesn’t really need more Fashion Houses. I want to… — Johan Lindeberg
I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful;… — Martin Luther
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,… — Albert Camus
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love. — Unknown Author
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado
There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. — Denis Diderot
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder… — J. William Fulbright
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by… — Michael Polanyi
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm… — Michael Polanyi
We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. — Vance Havner

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