Thus Quotes
2771 Thus quotes by 1600 unique authors
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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will…
— Aristotle
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It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to…
— Thomas Reid
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After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter,…
— James Boswell
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There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant proportion…
— George W. Bush
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It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"
— William Shakespeare
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Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past,…
— Robert Smithson
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical…
— Major Taylor
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Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.
— April Winchell
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Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy,…
— Unknown Author
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The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of…
— H. L. Mencken
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With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where…
— Unknown Author
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The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear…
— Khalil Gibran
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and…
— E F Schumacher
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When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
— Charles Lamb
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered…
— Charles Darwin
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Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
— Teresa of Avila
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Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the…
— Gautama Buddha
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The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the world because they…
— Gautama Buddha
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And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done, and naught more…
— Gautama Buddha
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Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer…
— Gautama Buddha
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A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings…
— Gautama Buddha
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus…
— Gautama Buddha
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Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning…
— Gautama Buddha
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