Consequently Quotes

• In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Beginning
  • Language
  • Intellectual

• When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Effort

• This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • God
  • Sin
  • Dishonor

• The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Power
  • Desire

• Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Moderation
  • Sober
  • Consequently

• Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

  

  John Milton
  • Knowledge
  • Books
  • Consequently

• I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.

  

  Will Davis Campbell
  • Seriously
  • Pleasant
  • While

• My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.

  

  Michael Smith
  • Atheism
  • Prizes
  • Presume