Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so, it would be no argument against the absolute sceptic, inasmuch as he does not admit that no contradictory propositions are true. Indeed, it would be impossible to move such a man, for his scepticism consists in considering every argument and never deciding upon its validity; he would, therefore, act in this way in reference to the arguments brought against him.
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.
We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.
The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
. . . The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn