Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."
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Spheres
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Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions."
Martin Buber
Philosopher
"Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery."
Reggie Watts
Comedian, Musician
"Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin."
Dennis McKenna
Ethnopharmacologist
"As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger"
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"Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval."
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"Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere."
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"Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance."
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"It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me."
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"Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained."
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"Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion."
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"The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!"
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"Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers."
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"In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity."
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"The cube and the sphere are the sole working tools of creation"
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"Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge."
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"Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere."
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"God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere."
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"When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man."
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"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
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"Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere."
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"But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres."
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"I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life."
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"Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." "Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
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"It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous."
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