Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the… — Terry Pratchett 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
Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean,… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical… — Heinrich Rohrer Copy Share Image
I love when you take bizarre, non-human things and somehow make them human or accessible. I think that's why I like the… — Kevin Munroe Copy Share Image
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Beautiful Lies is a book every woman should read. Jennifer Strickland weaves the powerful story of her life throughout each chapter while… — Carol Kent Copy Share Image
It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a… — Anonymous 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
You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It… — Alexander Downer Copy Share Image
It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When preachers teach biblically and clearly about the judgment of God and the dangers of hell, men begin to see that their… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made,… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
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