Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Juvenal

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Bill Young

As a rush-drop linebacker, he's kind of the perfect fit.

Mike Bellotti

Awesome. Simply awesome. I don't know if they are a perfect team, but they come close.

Brad Soderberg

Anthony's a gambler. Sometimes the play works. It's not a perfect science.

Karlyn Bowman

After 9/11 Bush, had perfect pitch in terms of his personal and policy reaction. He hasn't been so surefooted this time.

Bhagavad Gita

Scarcely one out of thousands of persons strives for perfection of Self-realization.

Peggy Fleming

It was a look of perfection just like her style.

Kimi Raikkonen

It was a perfect race for the team.

Raul Montes

Is it a perfect system? No. Is it better than it was before? Yes.

Max von Sydow

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Ayn Rand

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

Craig MacDonald

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Brandi Carlile

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Clive James

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Clint Eastwood

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Adolf Hitler

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Albert Einstein

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.