So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another — Andree Putman Copy Share Image
Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images,… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything.… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects,… — John Dykstra Copy Share Image
When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty. — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
