Quotes 601 till 620 of 1482.
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
The works of Disraeli the younger -
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15 -
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
The lonely life: an autobiography -
It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' - but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.
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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
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