Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Allan Bloom

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Alfred Korzybski

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Cornel West

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

David McCullough

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal

Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.

Edward Hirsch

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edward Hirsch

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Arthur Greenway

We want to see more students aiming for four-year colleges. I believe that with AVID, that will happen.

Colin Clarke

We are aiming to win the league and cup this season, and also return to Europe.

Oliver Kahn

We are aiming high in the Champions League and you will see a different team on Tuesday,

Andreas Barth

We are aiming for trading rooms in Europe.

Jarret Izzo

We are aiming for around 425 people to come.

Gareth Southgate

We're in Europe this year. What we aim to do is be in Europe every season. And if you can have that level of success, the whole thing rolls on. The revenue goes up for the club and they can attract better players. Everything becomes more positive.

Michael Watson

We started out aiming at the top six so we have done well. We have played some good football and shown we can match the best so I am delighted with the lads. We want to finish on a high.

Martin Seligman

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.

Nina Jacobson

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.