Modes Quotes

159 quotes by 133 authors

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from… — Aristotle
What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could… — Georg Cantor
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within… — Murray Bookchin
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton
Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different. — Lord Chesterfield
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. — Walter Pater
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,… — Neil Postman
The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see… — Frederick Lenz
Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do… — Karl Marx
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the… — Thomas Jefferson
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep… — Joseph Story
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some… — Anthony Giddens
Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed… — Anthony Giddens
What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation? — Sylvia Day
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say… — Walter Gilbert
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,… — Joshua Reynolds
Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals… — Mark Hopkins
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse… — Stanislaw Lem

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