A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of… — Irving Babbit Copy Share Image
The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
“The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“If we want to understand its imprint, we must put silence in context. This allows us to retreat, reflect, rejuvenate, and gain… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to show for… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting… — Propertius Copy Share Image
During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities… — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
