As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts. — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry and yet pass on without anguish when we are… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The same thing I did in 2013 is what I'm trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience,… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things. — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the… — Mark Bauerlein Copy Share Image
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs. — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
