Consists

Famous quotes containing the word consists:

“This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)

“The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.”
—John Fowles (b. 1926)