Far Quotes - page 8

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. (Richard Feynman)
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principal task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view. View quote
Kurt Gödel
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. View quote
William Blake
I'd far rather be happy than right any day. View quote
Douglas Adams
One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go. View quote
Heinrich Böll
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. View quote
Thomas J. Watson
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men - they are far superior and always have been. View quote
William Golding
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess. View quote
George Steiner
Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. (William Wordsworth)
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. View quote
Swami Sivananda
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. View quote
Vitruvius
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in debt is so far a slave. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be. View quote
Dan Quayle
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other. View quote
Dan Quayle
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death. View quote
Garrett Fort
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. View quote
Edgard Varèse
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe