A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I landed on Gay Pride and I couldn't believe my eyes! Not only were gay people real - I had only heard… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others… — Confucius Copy Share Image
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image