Wholly Quotes
630 Wholly quotes by 464 unique authors
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There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I can live only wholly with you or not at all.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible?…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something…
— Mircea Eliade
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The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
— Charles A. Reich
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Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly…
— Graham Kendrick
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I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
— Clement Freud
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Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.
— Hjalmar Söderberg
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Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.
— Anna Julia Cooper
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History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture…
— C. V. Wedgwood
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Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the…
— Andre Simon
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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
— Unknown Author
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While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly…
— Matt Chandler
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There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all,…
— Eric Shipton
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We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial,…
— Medard Boss
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Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if…
— Evelyn Underhill
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying,…
— B. C. Forbes
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The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical - all forms…
— Donald Watson
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You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
— John Vianney
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The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it…
— John Ramsay McCulloch
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
— Gary L. Francione
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It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count with us as…
— Robert McCracken
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As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular…
— June Jordan
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