Thus Quotes
2771 quotes by 1668 authors
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with…
— Hannah Arendt
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to…
— Teresa of Avila
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
— Gaston Bachelard
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is…
— Abu Bakr
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment…
— Honore de Balzac
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
— Dave Barry
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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
— Pierre Bayle
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more…
— Carol Bellamy
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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to…
— Mortimer Adler
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We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them…
— Annie Besant
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral…
— Annie Besant
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but…
— Annie Besant
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We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a…
— Annie Besant
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The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom…
— Vinoba Bhave
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which…
— Buffalo Bill
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A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming…
— David Bohm
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