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I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and im...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, o...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvat...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvat...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of gener...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

When told that only 3 men in the world understood Relativity, Eddington asked
"I wonder who is ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

When told that only 3 men in the world understood Relativity, Eddington asked "I wonder who is the t...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it ...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads n...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON Religious creeds are a great obstacle to any full sympathy between the outlook of the scientist and ...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON I believe that the basic planks of our strategy ... are a good foundation for a return to profitabil...
ROD EDDINGTON [BA argues that Chapter 11 is used as another form of state aid and keeps the industry bloated at a ...
ROD EDDINGTON I am confident we will have it (Concorde) back in the air by late summer.
ROD EDDINGTON

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancie...
ARTHUR MACHEN Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of ...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
ARTHUR ERICKSON

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need...
ARTHUR MILLER

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a g...
OWEN ARTHUR The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG

(...) a língua é, para o espírito de uma nação, o que o estilo é para o espírito de um indiv�...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon ...
ARTHUR SCARGILL

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, y...
BEA ARTHUR I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
BEA ARTHUR I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEA ARTHUR I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can&#...
BEA ARTHUR I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
BEA ARTHUR I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they...
BEA ARTHUR I can't imagine working without and audience.
BEA ARTHUR I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV c...
BEA ARTHUR Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEA ARTHUR I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've se...
BEA ARTHUR My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up...
BEA ARTHUR I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
BEA ARTHUR No fruit. No veggie.
BEA ARTHUR In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of di...
BEA ARTHUR I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being...
BEA ARTHUR Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEA ARTHUR You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
BEA ARTHUR I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn'...
BEA ARTHUR PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEA ARTHUR

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to b...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any cond...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivat...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in partic...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serio...
ARTHUR LAFFER

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
ARTHUR ERICKSON

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmo...
ARTHUR SMITH So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilitie...
ARTHUR ROCK Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. B...
ARTHUR LEVITT A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up witho...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and ...
ARTHUR WINTER Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shal...
ARTHUR SHOPENHAUER

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
ARTHUR BAER

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
ARTHUR BAER

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs
ARTHUR BAER

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end
ARTHUR BAER

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness
ARTHUR BAER In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Moral values, if you want to use them correctly, begin with love of your fellow man. And if they tea...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG I have never been a dove because I'm some kind of woolly-eyed liberal. I have been a dove from the v...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG I wrote two political letters this morning - as a retired country gentleman, who now teaches at the ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
ARTHUR HERTZBERG What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judais...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lo...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured th...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last severa...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which we...
ARTHUR GODFREY

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistak...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Time is that in which all things pass away.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave ne...
ARTHUR ERICKSON

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

(In...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, ...
ARTHUR PINE Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of ch...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little yout...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!
ARTHUR RIMBAUD There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He mu...
ARTHUR SYMONS Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that othe...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
ARTHUR MILLER A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
ARTHUR MILLER I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...
ARTHUR MILLER My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he...
ARTHUR MILLER A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
ARTHUR MILLER Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is qu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intel...
ARTHUR MILLER Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the univers...
ARTHUR KOESTLER We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and ...
ARTHUR O'SHAUNESSEY I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only...
ARTHUR PINE If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on...
ARTHUR MILLER Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shoul...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
ARTHUR KOESTLER We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER No one can transcend their own individuality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
ARTHUR KOESTLER The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect...
ARTHUR KOESTLER The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have sa...
ARTHUR QUINN Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
ARTHUR QUINN Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ...
ARTHUR QUINN The word of man is the most durable of all material.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it.
ARTHUR SELDON Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...
ARTHUR KOESTLER True creativity often starts where language ends.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh...
ARTHUR PHELPS A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

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