The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can… — Aga Khan III Copy Share Image
I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth… — Judah Halevi Copy Share Image
None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and… — Alan Armstrong Copy Share Image
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes… — Thomas Francis Meagher Copy Share Image
When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very… — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
That's what they want: two women. Fellas, I think that's a bit lofty. Because, come on, think about it - if you… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Come to me. Are you lost? I can see another way from where I live. The heart can see a path that's… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the… — Ossian Everett Mills Copy Share Image
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
