One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers… — David A. Kolb Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be… — Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Copy Share Image
A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions… — George Soros Copy Share Image
You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside… — Seth Copy Share Image
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea… — Buddha Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
