Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
“In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans.… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image
That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!"… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death… — James Frey Copy Share Image
In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which all things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I think, first and foremost ,Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I think it's the freedom, the undisciplined energy that's within us all - exactly what you feel when you enter the wild… — John Matthews Copy Share Image
In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters. Let's see. First on my list is Sam Gamgee from… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact… — Willie Jolley Copy Share Image