Spheres Quotes
469 quotes by 363 authors
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By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination…
— William Carlos Williams
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Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own…
— Antonio Gramsci
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All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the…
— Charles de Lint
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There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him…
— Hugh Nibley
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And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous…
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it…
— Max Muller
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The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere…
— Lewis Sperry Chafer
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God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service. They are the teachers whose names will never be in…
— Mel Lawrenz
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Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that…
— Andrzej Wajda
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No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What…
— Alexander Pope
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That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in…
— Alexander Pope
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Are there not hours of an immortal birth,— Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of…
— Robert Montgomery
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I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic…
— M. Scott Peck
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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether…
— Luc de Clapiers
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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
— Sri Chinmoy
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