Assemblance Art Quotes & Sayings

No single English intellectual symbolises the idea of Renaissance man more than Bacon. He wrote on aspects of law, science, history, government, politics, ethics, religion and colonialism, as well as gardens, parents, children and health.
The key work for appreciating the width of his interests is his Essays, originally published in 1597, and enlarged twice before his death. These meditations, often only a page long, give a remarkable insight into the thought of the period. — Ronald Carter

The best place to bury a dead love is deep in the depths of memory where it can be cherished forever. — Georgina Gentry

Genius speaks only to genius. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

I am so grateful for One Day At A Time, even though for years and years and years people would go, "Oh, you were on One Day At A Time." I [am on the show] for about seven months and then this haunts me for the rest of my life. No, I had no regrets. — Richard Masur

Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot. — Michel Foucault

Muhammad Iffat has an inflexible, Turkish mentality but a heart of gold. — Naguib Mahfouz

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned. — Elizabeth Barton

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit. — Aldous Huxley

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this. — Plutarch

And the ego's greatest enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life itself. — Eckhart Tolle