Vis Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a…
— James Prescott Joule
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The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized society, the living…
— Pope John Paul II
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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good…
— Lord Byron
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My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal…
— Jack Nicholson
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It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner…
— Daniel Kehlmann
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men…
— Karl Popper
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Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand,…
— Ernst Junger
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The correct attitude of the security analyst toward the stock market might well be that of a man toward his wife. He shouldn't pay too…
— Benjamin Graham
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
— Juan Goytisolo
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We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.
— Richard M. Weaver
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I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform…
— Glenn Gould
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The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
— Rene Dubos
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What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is…
— Tawfiq al-Hakim
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I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens…
— Jon Hamm
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't…
— Rafik Hariri
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There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way.…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it…
— Isaac Newton
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I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
— Henry Paulson
Who Wrote These Vis Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Vis Quotes as follows: