Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and… — Arnold Aronson 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
Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much… — George Cayley Copy Share Image
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
When our Lord says, 'I have not spoken of Myself' (Jn. 12:49), and again, 'As the Father said to Me, so I… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And… — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and… — Will Thomas Copy Share Image
Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
The divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in… — Lemuel Haynes Copy Share Image
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
