Abraham Kuyper Quotes, Doe Quotes, Spheres Quotes

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

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One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

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He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

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The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

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How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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