Bessiere Sousse Quotes & Sayings

But in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity, and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife? — Thomas More

The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This idea was extended by people like Descartes who saw the human body itself as nothing but a machine. Chemists tried to study chemical reaction in this light and reduce chemistry to a form of physics, and biologists tried to reduce their science to simply chemical reactions and then finally to the movement of physical particles. The idea of reductionsm which is innate to modern science and which was only fortified by the tehory of evolution could be described as the reduction fo the spirit to the psyche, the psyche to biological activity, life to lifeless matter and lifeless matter to purely quantitative particles or bundles of energy whose movements can be measured and quantified. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

If you like affection, then about one in three squirrels makes an excellent companion. — Bernhard Goetz

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. — Helen Vendler

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience. — Leo Tolstoy

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. — Beverly Sills

Criticism hurts most because it comes from another person and abuse is most damaging when it comes from someone who should love us. — Dave Mearns

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat. — Walter Lippmann

Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating. — Alexandra Robbins

He was a broad-shouldered beast. — Karen Marie Moning

History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future. — Thomas Jefferson

Always act the part - and you can become whatever you wish to become! — Max Reinhardt

There was a mountain of grief to be climbed, and no amount of talk would help me up it. — J.P. Delaney

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work. — Mandy Patinkin

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little. — James Wolfensohn