Vanishes Quotes

121 Vanishes quotes by 107 unique authors

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being… — Arthur Schopenhauer
..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its… — Ramana Maharshi
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession. — Chester Barnard
We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her… — Octavio Paz
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity… — Maria Edgeworth
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow… — Wojciech Kurtyka
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained. — Chanakya
During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the… — Leon M. Lederman
Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the matter. "Spirit is the… — Douglas Harding
But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves… — Virginia Woolf
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not… — Georges Lemaitre
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others. — Madeleine L'Engle
No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like… — Saadi
Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard… — Arthur Miller
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one… — Tatyana Tolstaya
Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who… — Jeanette Winterson
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of… — Friedrich Schiller
Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears… — Samuel Johnson
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the… — Yann Martel
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to… — Charles Caleb Colton
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and… — Milton Glaser
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. — Peter Drucker
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. — Patricia Highsmith
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient… — Paul Klee

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