His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects. — Nick Szabo Copy Share Image
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images,… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world. — Howard Thurston Copy Share Image
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and… — Barbara Chase-Riboud Copy Share Image
When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
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