Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Leon Battista Alberti

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• Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!

  

  Kate Williams
  • Son
  • Sister
  • Kings

• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Idea
  • Unity
  • Rendering

• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Character
  • Imagination

• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Being
  • Evolution
  • Theory

• I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Want
  • Stuff
  • Just

• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Fear
  • Now

• I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Girl
  • Evil
  • More

• I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Done
  • Movies
  • Need

• Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Christian

• North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Game
  • Down
  • Stock

• The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • God
  • Mind

• I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Cuba
  • Liberate
  • Fidel Castro

• I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Help

• Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • God
  • Believe
  • Earth

• ...if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Art

• Whatever's lost, it first was won; We will not struggle nor impugn. Perhaps the cup was broken here, That Heaven's new wine might show more clear. I praise Thee while my days go on.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Lost
  • Heaven
  • Struggle

• What if I am an aficionado of bullfights and I think, contrary to the animal cruelty people, that they ennoble both beast and man. I would not be able to market videos showing people how exciting a bullfight.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • People
  • Animal

• Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Time

• So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

  

  Arthur Cayley
  • May

• It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but instead ended the season, ... You learn from that.

  

  Chipper Jones
  • Feels
  • Games
  • Seasons

• Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Leaving

• If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.

  

  Woodrow Wyatt
  • Done
  • Running
  • Danger

• When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

  

  Leon Battista Alberti