Found Quotes - Page 28

The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

Calvin was virtually the founder of America.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.

There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.