• Categories
  • Order Quotes   486
  • The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Animal Quotes , Order Quotes
  • The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Order Quotes
  • Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Kings Quotes , Order Quotes
  • I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Order Quotes
  • We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Believe Quotes , Order Quotes
  • A lot of the reason why the debate is acrimonious is because of the 24/7 news cycles, blogs, and people being able to just throw something out there in order to get attention. And I'm not going be out there doing the same thing, trying to trash my successor or call attention to myself. I hope that's a positive contribution to the dialogue.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Order Quotes , People Quotes