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«The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.»
Author: George Moore
(Philosopher)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
circle, circle around, circle round, dogma, drawn, draws, petrifies, petrifying
«There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion»
«Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.»
Author: Pearl Bailey
(Entertainer)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
certain, circle, circling, contented, ideas, in a circle, wider, widest
«There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits»
«Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
| Keywords:
aesthetics, architects, at ease, bring home, circle, clients, dome, domes, great circle, home in, horde, hordes, knees, strains, stresses
«Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
beauty, circle, circling, compassion, creatures, embrace, free, in a circle, ITS, living, task, The Creatures, whole, widen, widened, widening, widens
«Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
absolute, absolutes, absolute magnitude, actual, certainly, circle, come into, exactly, existence, have-not, in a circle, known, line, one line, straight, straight line, There was, The Beginning
«The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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Bureaucracies, circle, deceived, detail, entrust, entrusting, entrusts, general knowledge, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, levels, low-level, lower, mutually, The General
«Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.»
«Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
bodily, circle, consciousness, finger, general, get into, intellectually, in general, morally, moving, organism, organisms, physically, potential, resources, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts, Small circle, using
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