Spheres Quotes
469 quotes by 375 authors
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of…
— Frederic Bastiat
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of…
— Kate Chopin
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
— Winston Churchill
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men…
— George Ellery Hale
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It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference…
— Maude Royden
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War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life…
— Adolf Hitler
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War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
— Charles Sumner
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals…
— Winston Churchill
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this…
— William E. Gladstone
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But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs…
— Albert Einstein
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Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
— George Santayana
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Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new…
— Rollo May
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True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.
— Christian D. Larson
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at…
— Francis Bacon
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To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote.…
— Paul Klee
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