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319 quotes by 268 authors

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in… — Paul Rand
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. — Herbert Read
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. — Franz Schubert
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. — Tom Stoppard
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell,… — Lewis Thomas
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to… — George Washington
i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan. — Robert Jordan
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on… — Czeslaw Milosz
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and… — Ann Radcliffe
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so… — Robert M. Pirsig
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a… — Italo Calvino
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any… — Albert Einstein
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. — Eckhart Tolle
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from… — Henry David Thoreau
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed. — Madonna Ciccone
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. — Milan Kundera
No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a… — Marcel Proust
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is â€” not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be. — Robert A. Heinlein
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense… — Richard Wright
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of… — Naomi Wolf

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