Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The thing about films is you learn new stuff all the time. You think you can get to a point where you've… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless,… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say:… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth,… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
