There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture. — David Bayles Copy Share Image
There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Time, money, etc... are human-made constructs. They are not real. They are completely made up. — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
