Quotes by Excess But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. John Stuart Mill individualism excess individuality We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty. Jonathan Sacks excess emotional purpose You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess. Jorge Posada cant excess care One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. Joseph Addison excess men world Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. Joseph Joubert excess littles book Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! Joseph Joubert deprived excess delight We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor. Juan Enriquez excess india world Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love. Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly excess human-nature lust African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess. Julianne Malveaux excess presidential african-american An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. Juvenal excess wealth The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel excess obsession spirit What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! Karl Kraus excess surrender sex Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson. Kate O'Beirne excess squares religion The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. Kate Zambreno excess greatness men Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play. Kim Cattrall excess smart play An excess of reason is itself a form of madness Kim Stanley excess madness reason The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. Laozi taoism excess extravagance An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law. Laurence Tribe rule-of-law excess law He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed. Laozi taoism excess needs Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them. Laurence Sterne excess pride ambition «345678910111213»
