Source Quotes - page 2

Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels. (Francisco Goya)
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. View quote
Sigmund Freud
If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. View quote
Albert Einstein
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide. View quote
Rebecca Wells
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change. View quote
James Frey
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. View quote
David Attenborough
Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food. View quote
Jane Goodall
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. View quote
Sam Houston
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked. View quote
Frances Burney
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. View quote
John Ashcroft
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. View quote
Edward de Bono
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. View quote
Carl Jung
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. (William Wordsworth)
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambition powerful source of good and ill. View quote
Edward Young
The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams-a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told-sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception. View quote
Herbert Marcuse