But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
