Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals. — Novalis Copy Share Image
I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really… — Keith Emerson Copy Share Image
We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest.… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result… — Moses Harvey Copy Share Image
The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Ours is not a dumb species. We have put a man on the moon. We have unlocked the secrets of the human… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image