If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I confess, right at the start, to the doubts - and sometimes outright dreads - that go with me as I climb… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer. — Leland Bell Copy Share Image
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it… — John Owen Copy Share Image
For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all… — Lola Montez Copy Share Image
Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I think there's just a lot of apprehension in Australia about the Trump victory. It's not that there are - some people… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
