"When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts……" — Jean de la Bruyere

More Animate Quotes

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• Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure… — Amos Bronson Alcott
• Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out… — Leonard Cohen
• Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil… — Henry David Thoreau
• In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts. — Carl von Clausewitz
• I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of… — Jeff Foxworthy
• At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are… — Lucretius
• The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in… — Charles Lyell
• I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society… — Albert Hofmann
• It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life,… — Louis Sullivan
• The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air… — Ludwig Boltzmann
• We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As… — William J. Clinton
• The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed… — Unknown Author

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