Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never…

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

— Hannah Arendt

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The…

— Erich Fromm

The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was…

— Ernst Mayr

“It's sad that in a world of billions, people can still feel isolated and alone. Sometimes all it takes to brighten up someone's day…

— Shaun Hick

A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which…

— Ernst Mayr

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

— Zhang Xin

“Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact. Keeping antimatter…

— Dan Brown

If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates is necessary…

— Friedrich Loeffler

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the…

— Wess Stafford

“The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break, as he…

— Noam Chomsky

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're…

— Annie Lennox

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear…

— Bertrand Russell

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A…

— Paul Bowles