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Transcendence constitutes selfhood. -- Martin Heidegger
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
What constitutes the authentic human being? -- Philip K. Dick
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence. -- Francois Delsarte
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. -- William Hazlitt
Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good -- Epicurus
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. -- Frederik Pohl
Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul. -- Neal A. Maxwell
In my book an erection constitutes personal growth. -- Amunhotep El Bey
One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement. -- Pauli Murray
Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations. -- Thomas Jefferson
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security. -- Barack Obama
Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy. -- Simone Weil
The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life. -- Aristotle
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? -- Abraham Lincoln
Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play. -- Agnes de Mille
It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude. -- Joseph Cook
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. -- Sigmund Freud
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame. -- Pierre Corneille
Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs. -- Jose Saramago
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. -- Epicurus
A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food. -- Elizabeth I
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. -- Victor Hugo
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future. -- Iris Murdoch
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. -- Henri Matisse
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history. -- Pope John Paul II
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence. -- Mahavira
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community. -- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse. -- Jan Clausen
How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder? -- Carl Sagan
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap. -- Sting
One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power. -- Merritt A. Edson
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. -- Henry David Thoreau
the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_. -- Namsoon Kang
Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory! -- Neal A. Maxwell
... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife. -- Herman Wouk
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. -- William Hazlitt
(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me. -- Albert Einstein
The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. -- Catiline
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'? -- Bill Hicks
Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip. -- Rick Perlstein
All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. -- Alfred Jarry
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide. -- P. G. Wodehouse
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. -- Walter Hagen
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything. -- Joan Didion
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder. -- Karl Marx
The "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought. -- Roberto Esposito
The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle. -- Alexander Hamilton
Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit. -- Philip K. Dick
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity. -- Clive Thompson
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. -- Fidel Castro
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. -- Moliere
Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. -- Peter Drucker
The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation. -- Meher Baba
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward. -- Arlen Specter
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. -- Okakura Kakuz?
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. -- Sigmund Freud
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the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst. -- Patricia J. Williams
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. -- Okakura Kakuz?
Anything past 90 days constitutes 'severe,' but all late payments stay on your report for seven years if reported. -- Jean Chatzky
The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art. -- Larry Gagosian
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life. -- Alice Hegan Rice
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. -- Confucius
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. -- Lawrence Weiner
Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument. -- Lewis H. Lapham
If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way. -- Nancy Hale
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. -- Bill Vaughan
We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle. -- Elena Ferrante
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. -- Milan Kundera
A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal. -- Lionel Shriver
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. -- Maria Montessori
The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity. -- Charles B. Rangel
If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute. -- Catherine Brady
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. -- Harold Rosenberg
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. -- Fran Lebowitz
One of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another. -- Justin Adams
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past -- John Berger
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. -- John Charles Polanyi
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas. -- Baruch Spinoza
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. -- Samuel Smiles
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity. -- Bergen Evans
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits. -- E. M. Delafield
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. -- Bill Gaede
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth. -- Larry Kramer
Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'. -- Joseph Chamberlain
...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution. -- Aldo Leopold
For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster. -- Michael Boatman
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes. -- David Mitchell
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower. -- Keith B. McCutcheon
The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works. -- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole. -- T. S. Eliot
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. -- Confucius
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite. -- Honore de Balzac
In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history. -- Carl Sagan
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. -- Richard Stallman
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.] -- Sallust
Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security. -- John O. Brennan
everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue. -- Ilka Chase

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