The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.
Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this.
Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.
A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.
Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing. . . . Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.