Sphere Quotes
390 quotes by 324 authors
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The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are…
— Marcel Proust
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Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of…
— Hippolyte Taine
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Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities…
— Archibald MacLeish
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Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.
— Jordan Dane
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. . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy…
— Thomas Berry
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As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view…
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
— Alberto Giacometti
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I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus…
— Alva Myrdal
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain…
— Cherrie Moraga
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In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
— C.S. Lewis
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Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our…
— Greg Boyle
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Leave women to find their sphere.
— Lucy Stone
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Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external…
— Nikola Tesla
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To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on…
— Pope Leo XIII
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