“God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind.The whole [of god] sees, the whole perceives, the whole hears. But without effort he sets in motion all things by mind and thought.” MenMindWholeBodyEffortAll ThingsSupremeMortalsPerceiveMind And Thoughts Author:Xenophanes
“There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.” MenMindSelfBodyWiseHe ManSupremeControlledSteadySelf Control Author:Publilius Syrus
“Intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the top of their list: the Supreme Court, the armed forces, and the Federal Reserve System. All three have one thing in common: they are insulated from the public pressures and operate undemocratically. It would seem that Americans admire these institutions, precisely because they lead rather than follow.” BodySeemsThreeForceCommonOne ThingPressureInstitutionsCourtListsSupremeAdmireReservesSupreme CourtPollsFederal ReserveArmed Forces Author:Fareed Zakaria
“that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!” FactsBodySpiritSexMemoriesCuttingLonelinessSupremeRemedyCommunionPatheticEphemeralShort Cuts Book:No Signposts in the Sea Source: No Signposts in the Sea
“There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.” BodyLightTruthTruth IsShadowErrorsDefinitionsSupremeDescriptionFalsehoodSublimePlatoContradictorySupreme BeingPlato S Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.” EndsBodyLawNationsInterestEconomicJudgingBehaviorBoundsSupremeSuperiorsConsiderationBowsRepresentativesClashTransactions Author:Friedrich August von Hayek