Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career… — Mylene Dinh-Robic Copy Share Image
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
