Treatises Quotes

#1. If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Felix Feneon

#2. Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.

Norman Mailer

#3. I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#4. All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature..

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. There is an old Scholastic distinction between religious treatises written "de Deo uno" and those written "de Deo trino": between, that is, those that are "about the one God" known to persons of various faiths and philosophies and those that are "about the Trinitarian God" of Christian doctrine.

David Bentley Hart

#6. Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes.

John D'Agata

#7. Have you by any chance an edition of St. Ignatius's treatise against the Gnostics?" he asked in a low clear voice.
The young assistant looked gravely back. "Not for sale, I'm afraid," he said. "Nor, if it comes to that, the Gnostic treatises against St. Ignatius."
"Quite," Anthony answered.

Charles Williams

#8. All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.

Ernst Mach

#9. I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.

Marie Curie

#10. I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

Bertie Carvel

#11. An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#12. For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

Aristotle.

#13. efforts demonstrated that he had little facility for writing propaganda or even for communicating with a broad audience. No rejoinder was more learned than his treatises, but none was so unreadable.

John Ferling

#14. Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Charles Gounod

#15. But eventually everything was back the way it had been before, except for Lucy's father's second-best tuba, which had sustained severe jam damage.
So Lucy's father sold his second-best tuba and bought a sousaphone instead, which he had always wanted.

Neil Gaiman

#16. I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

Meryl Streep

#17. Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Alfred North Whitehead

#18. Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.

Samuel Beckett

#19. That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.

Taya Kyle

#20. Never surrender opportunity for security.

Branch Rickey

#21. Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

Marianne Williamson

#22. I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

Michael Morpurgo