Wholly Quotes
630 Wholly quotes by 464 unique authors
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Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught…
— Hermann Hesse
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O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in…
— Angela of Foligno
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O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.
— Martin Luther
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God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, behind you and before you. Do you think God is sleeping on a pillow in…
— Martin Luther
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Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that…
— Bertrand Russell
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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
— Arthur Keith
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When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
— Simone Weil
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Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
— Andre Simon
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I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to…
— William Shenstone
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Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal…
— Unknown Author
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If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly,…
— Gerald Heaney
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How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a…
— Gerald Heaney
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
— G I Gurdjieff
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The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we…
— Richard L. Evans
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Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and…
— James Hillman
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The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become dreary itself; they…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle…
— Margaret Fuller
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It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly…
— James Madison
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The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;…
— James Madison
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