Baruch Spinoza Quotes
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
Baruch Spinoza
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
Zachary Quinto
My ignorance is widespread.
P. J. O'Rourke
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
Anne Enright
Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.
Marco Bizzarri
Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
Billy Eckstine
Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.
Katharine Graham
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.
Fred Tomaselli
Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.
Geoffrey Hinton
I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'
Peter Morgan
Do you subscribe to the Weekly Standard? Does that magazine hate America?
David Shuster
I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.
David Benioff
Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.
Lord Dunsany
Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.
Keanu Reeves
Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.
Zelda Fitzgerald
I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo Neruda
Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.
Amy Poehler
We're just amazed at the reaction of people when they hear about the Korean study. They're scared of this pandemic, so they're looking for anything to potentially protect themselves.
Chris Smith
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terror activity anywhere.
Ehud Olmert
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
William McKinley
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
Baruch Spinoza
