Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The two most important forms of diversity when it comes to innovation are visible diversity (typically skin color, age, gender, etc.) and… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty…Friendship,… — Joseph Bonanno Copy Share Image
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic.… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a… — John Newcombe Copy Share Image
The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well… — Willy Ronis Copy Share Image
Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Space , time , mass, and energy originate from Chaos , have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit.… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image