Quotes 241 till 260 of 321.
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The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 20 -
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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The virtue of a medicine probably lies to a considerable extent in the will to get well with which one purchases it.
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The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.
In: Biography and History of the Indians of North America Surrender speech in 1832 -
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
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There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956) -
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
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