READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw, A Buddha, hand at rest,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths.… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“I am the sphinx of love. But I didn’t used to be. I used to be a sphink—which has the head of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. Unknowable. Indefinable. Those were all the words Brandy used to describe me in my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The men who had inhabited prehistoric Egypt, who had carved the Sphinx and founded the world‘s oldest civilization, were men who had… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
![“Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and the devotee of nuts by pointing out that hazelnuts and walnuts are as deleterious as other foods and only Brazil nuts should be tolerated. But when I…” quote by Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e8/bertrand-russell-69_adoration_experience-has-taught-me-a-technique-for_2574234.jpg)
