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Thus Quotes by Wendell Berry
- But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere…
- Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money.…
- The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,…
- The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into…
- Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's…
- No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small…
More Thus Quotes
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- 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
- If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus… — Abu Bakr
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
- 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
- It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. — Pierre Bayle
- The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' — Ludwig van Beethoven
- We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy
- Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an… — Pope Benedict XVI