Quotes with exists

  • I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
  • Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
  • Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
  • I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
  • Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
  • That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
  • The man for who the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
  • Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
  • The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.
  • There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Voltaire The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Georges Bernanos Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • George Washington I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Bill Watterson Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Adam Clayton Powell A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
    Keep the Faith, Baby!
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Freedom exists only with power.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Boris Pasternak The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bill Watterson The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Billy Gardell 'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Gaston Bachelard A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Chogyam Trungpa Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
    Chogyam Trungpa
     
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  • Will Cuppy Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
    Will Cuppy
    American humorist and critic (1884 - 1949)
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