Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes
The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.
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The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security.
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Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.
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I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"
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I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."
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Children make you want to start life over.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.
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I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.
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The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.
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That's why Black Lives Matter thinks I'm so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is important.
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Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
