Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“When men shake hands with time, time crushes Them like tumblers; little pieces of glass.” — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri Copy Share Image
Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature… — William Jay Copy Share Image
Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders… — John Adams Copy Share Image
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero,… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution… — Henry L. Benning Copy Share Image
Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image