Spheres Quotes · Page 3

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

— Terry Eagleton

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

— Ulysses S. Grant

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

— Salman Rushdie

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

— Helen Fisher

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet…

— Steven Erikson

Germany has acted effectively during the euro crisis. It needs to build on this to engage in other spheres too.

— Joachim Gauck

A woman’s sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.

— M. Russell Ballard

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

— George Santayana

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no…

— Franz Liszt

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should…

— Jean Piaget

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no…

— Kamla Persad-Bissessar

In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently…

— Thomas Hartwell Horne

If today there is a proper American sphere of influence it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live…

— Hubert H Humphrey

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of…

— A. E. Waite

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and…

— Christa Wolf

The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of…

— Michael Sandel

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For…

— Archimedes

If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according…

— Edward Bernays

The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's…

— Michael Hudson

That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the…

— Alexander Pope

I'm stupid," Leo mumbled. "Pi would expand outward, because it's infinite." He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center…

— Rick Riordan

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon…

— Jurgen Habermas

To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws…

— Robin G. Collingwood

We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that…

— Alfred Noyes

Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the…

— Leonard Cohen

To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose…

— Val Plumwood

The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised…

— Matthew Arnold

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in…

— Michael Jackson

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as…

— Henry Giroux

"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived…

— George Henry Lewes

Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were…

— Naomi Klein

Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

— Jaggi Vasudev

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

— Edward Carpenter

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

— Ellen Key

But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

— Rumi

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

— Oswald Chambers

As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger

— Dennis McKenna