![[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.](/assets/img/quote-photos/wise-men-have-tried-to-understand-our-state-of-being-by-grasping-at-its-stars.jpg)
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[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere. Charles Fort
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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great. Don Rickles
wise war preparation
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war. Clara Barton
wise fate law
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. Alexander Pope
wise bears merit
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
wise pain eye
No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?
wise kings order
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. Eric Liu
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Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. Ben Nicholson
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We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. Arthur Schopenhauer
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art blood drawing
escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you. Charles Bukowski
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A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class
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The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts. Boethius
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I found Him in the shining of the stars. Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.
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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
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Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.
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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind. Alex Flinn
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There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear. Alex Garland