George Sarton Quotes

If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.

George Sarton

• World
• Soul
• Past
• Enough
• Succeed
• Embrace
• Generous

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• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Chaos
  • Consciousness
  • Irony

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.

  

  Rae Carson
  • World
  • Think
  • Open-minded

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Same

• We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Sunday

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The best-selling magazines to men are Playboy and Penthouse. These represent men’s primary fantasy: access to as many beautiful women as desired without risk of rejection. The best-selling magazines to women are Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, representing the female primary fantasy: better homes and gardens and a family circle.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Consciousness is not wholly, nor even primarily a device for receiving sense-impressions. ...there is another outlook than the scientific one, because in practice a more transcendental outlook is almost universally admitted. ...who does not prize these moments that reveal to us the poetry of existence?

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Moments
  • Poetry
  • Practice

• You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Up
  • Important
  • Law

• Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

  

  Ken Hill
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Random

• The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Up

• Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

  

  David Sarnoff
  • Adventure

• Deep down, you know what you want, and you should go for it.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Deep

• In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

  

  James Monroe
  • Taken
  • Preparation

• It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

  

  Ken Thompson
  • Serious

• I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • Time
  • California

• Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World
  • Country
  • Heart

• The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Life
  • Society
  • Question

• I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Business
  • Walking

• If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.

  

  George Sarton
  • World
  • Soul
  • Past