The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the… — Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Copy Share Image
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice,… — Deke Slayton Copy Share Image
We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this understanding between their hands and material objects, they… — Madeleine Bourdouxhe Copy Share Image
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by… — John Pawson Copy Share Image
When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses.… — John Dykstra Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany… — William James Copy Share Image
The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Those who are wise ambassadors of the word have no other object in view than to free as far as they can… — Origen Copy Share Image
Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears:… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
