Quotes with thought-tyrants

Quotes 821 till 840 of 849.

  • William Shakespeare You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles E. Popplestone You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life - your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night...
    Charles E. Popplestone
    American author
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  • S. I. Hayakawa You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action,
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • C. S. Lewis You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 59
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Nelson You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • J. G. Gallimore Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns leads your life.
    J. G. Gallimore
    American author
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  • Albert Schweitzer As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Robert Frost A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
    Insecurity of Freedom
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Pablo Picasso An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • William Shakespeare Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Francis Schaeffer Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
    Francis Schaeffer
    American theologian and philosopher (1912 - 1984)
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  • Andy Rooney I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Bryan Fuller If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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