Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of… — Paul Morphy Copy Share Image
I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ...… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. — Jennifer Young Copy Share Image
Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
