Wholly Quotes
630 Wholly quotes by 464 unique authors
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To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions,…
— Joanne Stepaniak
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People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.
— Frederic C. Howe
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The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be,…
— Parmenides
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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with the…
— Mircea Eliade
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From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but…
— James Cook
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Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting.…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
— Samuel Johnson
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In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and…
— Unknown Author
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
— St. Catherine of Siena
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Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself.
— Johann Albrecht Bengel
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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas…
— Sergei Eisenstein
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The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads…
— Max Stirner
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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days…
— Marcel Proust
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It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You…
— Hilaire Belloc
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The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. .…
— Unknown Author
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It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden…
— C.S. Lewis
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If…
— Mortimer Adler
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Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The…
— Nikola Tesla
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The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ...…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another",…
— Unknown Author
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Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how…
— Roger Ascham
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the…
— Thomas Huxley
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