Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error. — Kathryn Kuhlman Copy Share Image
The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and… — Kate Jacobs Copy Share Image
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which… — James Leonard Gordon Copy Share Image
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation. — William Fleming Copy Share Image
There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I’d been raised to be practical and keep my emotions in check, but I loved cars. That was one of the few… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the… — William James Copy Share Image
The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically? — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
