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Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always… — William James
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind… — Neil Postman
...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? — Nicole Krauss
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the… — Gaston Bachelard
At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why… — Nicole Krauss
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place… — Marcel Proust
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away,… — Corrie Ten Boom
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the… — Rebecca Solnit
The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is… — C.S. Lewis
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity… — Woodrow Wilson
Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you… — Robert Crais
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short… — Alice Walker
You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's. — Jeanne Marie Laskas
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though.… — Barbara Kingsolver
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence.... — Robert Anton Wilson
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but… — E. Lockhart
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest… — Cormac McCarthy
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator,… — Leo Tolstoy
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it… — Rita Mae Brown
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. — Julia Child
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the… — Maya Angelou
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations… — Sam Harris
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be… — James E. Faust

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