Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and who in this way introduce morals into the natural world, in spite the fact that we are part of this world. We are products of nature, but nature has made us together with our power of altering the world, of foreseeing and of planning for the future, and of making far-reaching decisions for which we are morally responsible. Yet, responsibility, decisions, enter the world of nature only with us
A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment.
It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.
The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.
Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.
Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.
My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.
There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life.
The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes on this device, skilfully disguised though the fact may be.
To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.
The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other.