#to

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#decrees #following #frustrated #generally #habits

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#agree #agreed #character #control #evidence

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#go #god #his #history #long

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#come #downwards #even #habit #inorganic

I would like to say when I turn the project over to the label that I have been successful. And that's truly the way I feel. But, in addition to the self-pride in 'making' a good album, to be honest, I'd love to have a hit record. ↗

— Chely Wright

#album #been #feel #good #hit

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

#intimidation #slam #tool #used

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. ↗

— Frances Wright

#all things #bring #contented #courage #covetous

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being. ↗

— Frances Wright

#being #honest #limit #rights #sentient

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #civilized #civilized nations #engaged #enlightened

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#follows #form #function #joined #misunderstood