Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1482.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Human Options (1981) -
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
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