Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses… We agonize… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
You should not be too much of a purist in your way of life, for you need to be able to accept… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image