But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which… — Solon Copy Share Image
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have,… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
