Quotes 581 till 600 of 681.
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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think, and above all to develop thought.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
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Truth is the trial of itself
And needs no other touch,
And purer than the purest gold,
Refine it ne'er so much.Source: The Touchstone of Truth -
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
Source: The Problem of Pain (1940) -
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / and vice sometimes by action dignified.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595) -
Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.
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