Deny that lack has any place or reality in your thought or your affairs and affirm plenty as the only appearance. Praise… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put… — Hannah Copy Share Image
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides Copy Share Image
My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things. — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
“The affair is over, but at least things have gone somewhere, if only into oblivion. And maybe oblivion is what I wanted… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole… — James Kern Feibleman Copy Share Image
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image