If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. — Tilopa Copy Share Image
Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy;… — Swami Paramananda Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form. — Francois Delsarte Copy Share Image
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments. — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
