“The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India's legislature is being destroyed. — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice… — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall… — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be… — George Porter Copy Share Image
Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“Someone, he added, ought to draw up a catalogue of types of buildings listed in order of size, and it would be… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed. — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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