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463 Thereby quotes by 362 unique authors

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;… — Thomas Mann
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon… — Pope Benedict XVI
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such… — Milan Kundera
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple… — Seraphim Rose
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of… — Seraphim Rose
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining… — Douglas Adams
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English… — Robert A. Heinlein
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,… — Jeremy Narby
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them. — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby,… — Orhan Pamuk
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do… — Peter Singer
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own… — Garrison Keillor
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in… — Marisha Pessl
Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is… — Martin Heidegger
I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth… — Anne Lamott
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby… — Jane Jacobs
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are… — Sidney Poitier
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to… — Ken Follett

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