The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The Spirit has his own existence and personal function in the inner life of God and the economy of salvation: his task… — John Meyendorff Copy Share Image
Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights.… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Don't neglect the gifts in you. Power reserved is function suspended. The day you choose to switch on your passion is the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member… — Rider Strong Copy Share Image
The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending.… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a… — Sara Little Turnbull Copy Share Image
The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They… — Michael J. Nelson Copy Share Image
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for… — David Copy Share Image
The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Intuition is like a radio station.. No, intuition is more like a radio receiver and it can receive different stations. This radio… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
