Anaximander Quotes

#1. For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other - Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.

Carl Sagan

#2. Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

Plutarch

#3. Those who fail to take the time to be healthy will ultimately have to take the time to be sick.

James Chappell

#4. Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

Ralph Nader

#5. My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

Philip Levine

#6. There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

Anaximander

#7. Meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.

Thrangu Rinpoche

#8. The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

Anaximander

#9. graphics should not simplify messages. They should clarify them, highlight trends, uncover patterns, and reveal realities not visible before.

Alberto Cairo

#10. Smiles come best from those who weep.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#11. One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Emile M. Cioran

#12. I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

Norman MacCaig

#13. Without the light the beauty remains hidden," Gofrid said. "But it is always there. Just like God's love, or a father's, or a mother's. Remember that, Alienor. You are loved, whether you see it or not.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#14. The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

Jean Baudrillard

#15. The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him ...

Oswald Chambers

#16. Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.

James Wolcott

#17. But then the stage showed other things. Bad things. Murderous things. Things I would never really do. And things I would forget about in the morning, because I'd wake up feeling a whole lot better. I knew right from wrong, Ori and I both did. We were not terrible people. We were not fools.

Nova Ren Suma

#18. Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.

Anaximander

#19. Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

Jean-Paul Sartre