A Quote by Peter Kreeft

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
American - Educator
Born: 1937

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

Aristotle

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Gautama Buddha

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Jasmine Guy

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

Leonardo da Vinci

I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.

Lawren Harris

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Max Ehrmann

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

Guy Finley

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

Brian Tracy

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Mary Astell

Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

Paul Gosar

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

William Shakespeare

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

Phyllis Rose

The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up.

Jill Stein

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

Augustus De Morgan

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

George Bernard Shaw

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

James Richardson

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