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• There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, World, Divinity

  Leo Tolstoy (graf), Nathan Haskell Dole (1899). “The complete works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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• The understanding eye sees the maker’s fingerprints. They are evident in every detail ... Leave Fingerprints.

  James Krenov

  Eye, Understanding, Details

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• The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Self, Invincible

  Walter Lippmann (1938). “The good society”, p.375, Transaction Publishers

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• God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

  Martin Buber

  Self, Mystery

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

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• It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Political

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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• The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

  Will Durant

  Islamic, Order, Civilization

  "Story of Civilization Our Oriental Heritage". Book by Will Durant, 1935.

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• According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.

  Marcel Proust

  Ignorance, Law, Sophisticated

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Self, Should, Decree

  Jonathan Edwards (1811). “The Works of President Edwards;: Five sermons on different occasions. Miscellaneous observations on important theological controversies. Distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God”, p.384

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• What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge already in their possession; enable them to apply simple, sometimes self-evident, truths to the guidance of their common life.

  Norman Angell

  Simple, Men, Self

  Sir Norman Angell (1943). “Let the People Know”

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• Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

  Felix Klein

  Self, Mathematics

  "Anwendung der Differential-und Integralrechnung auf Geometrie". Book by Georg Scheffers, p. 26, 1920.

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• Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Love Is, Shining

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.158, New World Library

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• Very few recordings exist in which Hitler can be heard speaking normally. But in those that do exist, it's evident he possessed quite a warm, calm voice. It's a completely different tone from what he used in his public appearances.

  Volker Ullrich

  Voice, Different, Tone

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• When the Spirit of God comes into us, He wants to be Himself in us. He wants His energy to be poured through us. He wants His wisdom to be deposited in our hearts. He wants His instinct and nature to be evident and obvious in you.He wants us to see what He is looking at, to feel what He feels, to know what He knows, to work with His projects, see life the way He sees it, get His ideas and know His opinion about yourself and others.

  T. B. Joshua

  Heart, Ideas, Energy

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• All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Encounters

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.185

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• The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  David Edward

  Self, Common Sense, People

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• The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Ideas, Discovery

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• One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

  Adrian Tomine

  Careers, Evolution, Professional Career

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Self, Lines

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• Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.

  Rod Parsley

  Healing, Thieves, Tradition

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• No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

  David Hume

  Men, Beast, Reason

  David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.232

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• I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

  Marge Piercy

  Moving, Fire, Dust

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.106, Knopf

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• The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.

  John Wesley

  Opposites, Sick, Naked

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.261

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• It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

  Kevin Kelly

  Literature, Lessons, Evolution

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• In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

  John Locke

  Faith, Ideas, Judging

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.530

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