Quotes of: Von Keyword

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

The Rommel Papers

You'll have to give me a minute here. Gravity's a real bitch this morning. Ian to Kori

Shadow Bound

Nationalism has little to contribute today except further suffering.

Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

A Mencken Chrestomathy

Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.

The Transforming Power of Grace

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Philosophical Investigations

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

The Power of the Powerless

A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

Unknown

Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.

Wellness Wisdom - Inspired by One Woman's Journey with Breast Cancer

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

Al Oerter

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Algernon Sidney

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

Brewster Kahle

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David Deutsch

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

Donald Judd

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

E. Stanley Jones