I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living. — Andrew Williams Copy Share Image
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of… — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition,… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Significance is about making a difference, and its pursuit should ideally come before the pursuit of success – or at least at… — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“how to find meaning and fulfillment in the second half of our lives. In short, how to move from success to significance!… — Bob P. Buford Copy Share Image
By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
