Circle Quotes

965 quotes by 789 authors

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to… — Carl Jung
So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and… — Fulton J. Sheen
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still… — Thomas Jefferson
The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it. — Curt Sachs
Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a… — Curt Sachs
The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the… — Gerald Jonas
Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air. — Charles Baudelaire
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small. — Mother Teresa
THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes… — Morihei Ueshiba
If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and… — G I Gurdjieff
Colonel John Alexander was an original member of the Earth Battalion and served in many interesting paranormal scouting efforts. Eventually he headed up the non-lethal… — Jim Channon
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. — Stephen Gardiner
We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on. — Glenn Danzig
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose… — Catharine Cox Miles
I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow… — Mac Davis
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the… — William S. Burroughs
A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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