With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object. — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
As you release the things you no longer love or use, you call back to yourself the parts of your spirit that… — Karen Kingston Copy Share Image
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Place an object within your view, hopefully at about eye level. You might have to look down a little bit. Some people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What the soul is doing is kind of walking through the forms, and so our experience of thinking isn't normally this kind… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects… — Confucius Copy Share Image
All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
A $4 houseplant is one of the most astonishing objects ever assembled. It's a biodegradable, carbon-capturing, self-replicating, solar-powered work of art. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Your faith depends on the strength of its object...a puny god just won't do. — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love. — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image