Camillo Sitte Quotes & Sayings

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals ... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check. — Tobias Dantzig

The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be. — Laozi

I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther. — Walt Whitman

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids. — Gorgias

It's a far greater friend, one who speaks the truth despite risk of retribution. — Dawn Jayne

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. — Sonia Sotomayor

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another ... we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria. — Charles Darwin

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Work is an instrument for fulfilling purpose — Sunday Adelaja

While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence. — B.K.S. Iyengar

As soon as you start to feel differently about what you already have, you will start to attract more of the good things, more of the things you can be grateful for. — Joe Vitale

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful. — Penn Jillette

Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely. — Arundhati Roy

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made. — Carol W. Greider

If you ask what the people here are like, I must tell you, "Like people everywhere!" Uniformity marks the human race. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe