I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to… — Ingrid Weir Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy,… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like? — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
