Perishes Quotes

68 quotes by 60 authors

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. — Anton Chekhov
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. — Thomas Huxley
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the… — Carl Linnaeus
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to… — Ayn Rand
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from… — Anaxagoras
One never perishes through anybody but oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing… — John Lighton Synge
One wears one's mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one's heart in love and yet… — Milton Steinberg
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes. — George Orwell
From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first… — Charles Spurgeon
We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body. — Mahatma Gandhi
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. — Robert Browning
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one… — Laozi
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence,… — Plato
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you… — George Orwell
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills… — Fisher Ames
A beautiful site perishes, but at archive.org it dies not — Leonardo da Vinci
I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ; One only is… — Giordano Bruno
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art. — Leonardo da Vinci

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