“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.” ShouldChildrenWholeActionFatherOpportunityCommunityVirtueGreaterWifeMankindExerciseDegreesPaidSpeciesDuesSuperiorsProportionSpheresProvidenceOur LoveBenevolenceGoodwillProvinces Book:Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.” GivingShowsPoliticalPurposeSocialOpinionGreaterAmountExerciseDemandAuthorityVoteFoundationRationalAbstractManipulationSpheresPublic Opinion Author:Jurgen Habermas
“Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.” IfsSpiritualLevelsStepsExerciseHighestYogaFaultsTreatedClimbsSpheres Author:B.K.S. Iyengar
“Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.” MenPoliticalPoliticsLibertySupportEconomyDemocracyEconomicConditionsExerciseIdealsLiberalismSpheresDeprivedEconomic SystemsEquality For AllLiberty And Equality Book:The Capitalist Manifesto Source: The Capitalist Manifesto
“[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.” PeopleGivingMeanArtRealityReligionCommonEmotionalExerciseSatisfactionMythTinyCommon SenseRevelationsMysticismStrongestZeroSpheresTrance Author:E. O. Wilson
“While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.” WellsGrowsLeadershipEffortInfluenceDependsDisciplineExerciseSelf ImprovementSizeImprovementSpheresSphere Of Influence Author:John C. Maxwell
“No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.” MenWayWantFeelsLongEnoughLawLibertyExerciseRemainsSpheresRestraint Author:J. G. Holland