Spheres Quotes
469 quotes by 363 authors
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Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered…
— Thomas Browne
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To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all…
— James Gibbons
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,…
— Alexander Pope
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the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of…
— David Hume
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can…
— Paul Cezanne
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed…
— Paul Cezanne
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This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
— Tim Ferriss
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The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their…
— Steven Pressfield
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Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.
— Eugenie Scott
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Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of…
— Brigham Young
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A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is…
— Maria Mitchell
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Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,…
— Matthew Arnold
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When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's…
— Frederick Lenz
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The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different…
— Alexander Calder
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Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches…
— Marcus Aurelius
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