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Destiny of community is complicity between the ones who gave away their freedom and the person who took over it, to define himself and to define all of them.

Quote by Gabriel Liiceanu about destiny, people

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of...

Quote by Ansel Adams about philosophy, revelation, science, experience, history, art, magic, nature, spirit, world

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Quote by Erykah Badu about symbol, religion, self-control, god

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Quote by Douglas Adams about doubt

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

Quote by Scott Adams about people, principle, religion, nothing, things

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who...

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

Quote by Andre Agassi

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female -...

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. Simone

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about human imperfections, being, woman, man

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I...

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

Quote by Agatha Christie about film, politics, regret

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about philosophy, wisdom, love

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If...

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Quote by Camille Paglia about man, identity, mother

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Quote by Walter Pater about writers, poetry, beauty, art, magic

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of...

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of...

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about liberty, obstacles

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think...

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about personality, magic

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it...

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about fame

The cardinal elements possess this title through the fact that they are the last frontier to the level of awareness through which that world can be defined. Life and Death are cardinal because nothing can include them in its structure by becoming...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about destiny, world, dream, death, nothing, life

Everything that starts from at least two elements towards an infinite number of elements has the opposability characteristic. The big difference consists of the fact that, in this opposability, starting from a higher level or from one equal to...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about origin, infinite, numbers, world

To define an opposite, it’s necessary to have only one opposable element, and in the worlds where there are more than two opposable elements, the singularity of the opposable element in comparison with the other disappears, in the sense that Life...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about order, death, common sense, sense, life

Death is all that Life isn’t as Life is all that Death...

Death is all that Life isn’t as Life is all that Death isn’t but both of them define each other eternally into vanity!

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, proudness, vanity, life

But what can be more resembling to Life than Death? Nothing! And yet, they both obey a destiny which is a shadow of God, as we are too, except that this shadow can no longer be defined as an opposite to the other two, but as destiny, because we...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about life, shadow, destiny, logic, death, god, nothing

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