A Quotes
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“All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.”
“All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.”
“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“All philosophy is a form of confession.”
“All Philosophy is Biography”
Source: Liber Kaos
“All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.”
“All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.”
“All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are less about objects and more about the space that contains them. Still fewer photographs are about light itself.”
“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
“All photographs are far more important than any painting.”
“All photographs are self-portraits.”
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”
“All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.”
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.”
“All photography is propaganda.”
“All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated.”
“All physical and nonphysical things have another side, a side that is not visible to the senses or accessible to the reasoning mind, a side that can only be known and experienced intuitively by emptying one's own mind of thoughts.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“All physical beings have communication from their inner being in the form of emotion, and so, whenever your emotion is positive, you can know that you are in harmony with your inner intention.”
Source: The Law of Attraction
“All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.”
“All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.”
“All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.”
“All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.”
Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“All Pieces of puzzle set on right place, but it'll take time & dedication !!”
“All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“All pitchers are born pitchers.”
“All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
“All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“All pity is self-pity.”
“All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.”
Source: The Plays
“All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]”
“All places are places of worship to a Christian.”
“All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“All places of worship are symbols of the One Beloved.
Bow your head when you see a temple,
and salute when you see a mosque.”
Source: A tear and a star
“All places shall be hell that are not heaven.”
“All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.”
“All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.”
Source: The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
“All planets exist for a reason. Some exist to provide various resources in the form of chemical elements, while others harbour life that in some way impact the universe. On Syvopia, we affect the universe through ways of entertainment.”
“Entertainment?” Dean responds in astonishment. “What type of entertainment?”
“The Intergalactic Team Games, of course,” Emperor Pryme says cheerfully.”
Source: Intergalactic Mind Games
“All planets exist for a reason. Some exist to provide various resources in the form of chemical elements, while others harbour life that in some way impact the universe. On Syvopia, we affect the universe through ways of entertainment.”
“Entertainment?” Dean responds in astonishment. “What type of entertainment?”
“The Intergalactic Team Games, of course,” Emperor Pryme says cheerfully. “We provide entertainment for our locals as well as those from other worlds. Our contestants must endure various challenges with high risk and high reward.”
Source: Intergalactic Mind Games
“All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.”
“All play and no work makes me a happy girl”
“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”
“All Playboy bunnies were constantly reminded that the TV show was Hugh Hefner's show - our contributions were irrelevant. We were the decorative icing, not the cake. According to our boyfriend, he could have splashed any three blondes on-screen and found instant success.”
“All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.”
“All plays are implicitly political by virtue of the subject-matter, form, and linguistic registers they contain, and the audience for whom they are intended; all productions are implicitly political because the resources they consume are denied to another play, company and space.”
Source: The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays
“All plays are social comment to one extent or another.”
“All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it.”
“All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.”
“All pleasant dreams morph into disappointment once the mind awakens.”
Source: They Called Us Savages
“All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.”
Source: A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].