A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch… — Olivier Messiaen Copy Share Image
Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in. — David Markson Copy Share Image
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows… — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning. — Richard Hammond Copy Share Image
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting… — Cass Canfield Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
