Modes Quotes

159 quotes by 133 authors

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live. — Clarence John Laughlin
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of… — Giuseppe Mazzini
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? — Alexander Pope
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have… — Stephen Leacock
Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement. — George Steiner
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally… — Edward Gibbon
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time… — Elfriede Jelinek
I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune… — Alex Lifeson
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them,… — Auguste Rodin
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. — Susan Sontag
I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. — Jimmy Wales
I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are… — Reggie Watts
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. — Alfred North Whitehead
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. — John Stuart Mill
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by… — Edward Gibbon

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