Victor Cousin Quotes

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Pen
  • Medium

• Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Kids
  • Stop
  • Gay

• Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Lie
  • Taxes

• Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • She
  • Mom

• I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hope

• Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Big

• If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Work
  • She

• One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Good
  • Man
  • Woman

• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fame

• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Man
  • Ladies

• I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Relationship

• I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Law

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Life
  • Real
  • She

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Taken
  • Old
  • Prejudice

• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Light
  • Problems
  • Darkness

• A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Single
  • Fire
  • King

• Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Philosophy

• And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Believe
  • Job
  • True

• Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Good
  • True
  • Man

• Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Philosophy

• True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

  

  Victor Cousin
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  • Philosophy
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