(38 quotes found)
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.”
William Booth
“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.”
Sun Tzu
“If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.”
Critias of Athens
“I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion.”
John James Audubon
“Take alms out of their property, you would cleanse them and purify them thereby, and pray for them; surely your prayer is a relief to them; and Allah is Hearing, Knowing. (The Immunity 9.103)”
quran
“Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.”
Otto Weininger
“The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby”
William Shakespeare
“When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.”
