Metaphysicks Quotes

#1. Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

Robert Hooke

#2. Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

Ingmar Bergman

#3. Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Never again help anyone to feel as though they have a right to feel badly.

Guy Finley

#7. Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Max Schmeling

#8. It was one of the best things about him; he liked to talk about people, study them, and work them out. He was interested in the complexities of relationships.

Liane Moriarty

#9. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

James McHenry

#10. Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#11. She is not my equal; she is my better. She is my sticky little leaf.

Sylvain Reynard