According Quotes
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
Baruch Spinoza
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
Wilhelm Wien
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
Michael Ende
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
George Eliot
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Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
Immanuel Kant
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We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
Joshua A. Norton