Quotes 141 till 160 of 681.
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
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Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
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Every principle contains in itself the germs of a prophecy.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
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Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology.
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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
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Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
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For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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