Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Great short quote and quotation by: Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics , (448 BC – 400 BC)
This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for […]
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064
This world is the will to power – and nothing besides! Great short quote and quotation by: Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064 , German philosopher (1844 – 1900)
Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it […]
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Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and […]
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. Great short quote and quotation by: Aristotle, Physics , Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
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To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. Great short quote and quotation by: Tryon Edwards , (1809 – 1894)
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To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way. Great short quote and quotation by: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching ,
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective. Great short quote and quotation by: Liz Smith ,
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it. Great short quote and quotation by: William Hazlitt , English essayist (1778 – 1830)
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825 , (1780 – 1832)
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary. Great short quote and quotation by: C. C. Colton ,