After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
