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“The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which possesses primary force and by nature suffers nothing): neither do they consist of bodies; for even in bodies the powers are incorporeal. Neither are they contained by space; for that is a property of bodies. Neither are they separate from the first cause nor from one another, just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul.”

Mind Firsts Soul Body Suffering Force Causes Space Existence Essence Property Primaries

Author:Sallust

“Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind.”

Mind Firsts Process Existence Meditation Buddhism Breathing Exhaling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.”

Firsts Two Problem Found Simple Existence Determination Mathematics Crisis Circles Rational Mathematical Squares Domain Geometry Arithmetic Diagonal

Author:David van Dantzig

“I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe.”

Thinking Should Firsts Reason Hate Universe Evil Jesus Existence Enemy Peace And Justice

Book:A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

“Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.”

Firsts Has Beens Existence

Book:Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

“There is no soul; there is only consciousness, the highest thing man ever has! Losing the conscious means to die! Death is not a door; when our conscious is gone, all is gone! Only the existence has the doors! Only the life presents you doors! You can save yourself only when you are alive, not after because there is no after! The first step for salvation is to know this simple truth!”

Knows Men Life Firsts Mean Soul Dies Simple Existence Consciousness Steps Gone Alive Doors Highest Losing Conscious Salvation First Steps Truth Of Life Simple Truths Save Yourself

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.”

“The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.”

Giving Firsts Humans Heart Home School Form Joy Social Interest Existence Responsibility Virtue Tears Sorrow Relation Chiefs Human Life Ties Fountain Solicitude

Book:Essays, Literary & Political

Source: Essays, Literary & Political

“The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”

Way Firsts Science Goal Existence Half Stage Argument Notion Half Way Non Existence

Author:Zeno of Elea

“I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice does'nt ask questions like, Is this good? Is this a poem? Are you a poet? I keep this voice at a distance, letting only the good angel whisper to me: Trust yourself. You can't worry a poem into existence.”

Writing Firsts Doe Asks Voice Existence Worry Poet Angel Distance Shoulders Trust Yourself

Author:Georgia Heard

“How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably?”

People Thinking World Want Trying Firsts Kind Country Hard Would Be Moving Existence Figures Policy Conversation Valuable Our Country Chickens Collapse Batteries

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“The young man who closes the door behind him, who draws the curtains, and there in silence pleads with God for help, should first pour out his soul in gratitude for health, for friends, for loved ones, for the gospel, for the manifestations of God's existence. He should first count his many blessings and name them one by one.”

Men Should Firsts Soul Helping Young Names Behinds Existence Silence Doors He Man Gratitude Blessing Draws Manifestation Young Man Loved Ones Curtains Gratitude For Health Many Blessings

Author:David O. McKay

“My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.”

Ifs Knows Feels Firsts Art Ends Might Artist Suffering Understanding Existence Consciousness Universal Strive Accomplish Missions Intense Sheer Suspicious Unattainable

Author:Kedar Joshi

“We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts Evil Lost Loses Existence Quality Goodness Good Badness

Book:Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda

Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda

“I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.”

Ifs World Firsts Existence Shapes

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.”

Should Firsts Might Age Universe Understanding Existence Principles Mankind Prove Creator Ignorant Judged Should I Affront

Book:The works of Benjamin Franklin: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition, and many letters, official and private, not hitherto published ; with notes and a life of the author

Source: The works of Benjamin Franklin: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition, and many letters, official and private, not hitherto published ; with notes and a life of the author

“I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for supplying tomatoes to the Parliament House kitchen. But, no, as I soon learnt as industry minister, it was in fact a government funded redoubt of veritable soldiers in a war against carbon dioxide. The zealotry and obsessive passion of these warriors in the battle against the apparent evils of carbon dioxide remains a curiosity to me. After fighting these people for three years as industry minister, I really did wish they would just go away and grow tomatoes.”