It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
Maimonides

Let each produce according to his aptitudes and his force; let each consume according to his need.
Louis Blanc

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
David Seabury

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Remy de Gourmont

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
Joseph Butler

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
Don DeLillo

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
Bobby Jindal

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Jean Toomer

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.
Evan Sayet

Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.
Bob Holden

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.
Howard Coble

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
Stephan Jenkins

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
Frederik Pohl

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.
Michael Polanyi

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
Albert Claude