“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.” Has BeensTwoLinesBoysPaperLogicBasesDistancePhilosopherInvisibleCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVisibleFountainPencilsStraight LinesNothing NewOntology Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.” Has BeensLandDistanceFallenGorgeousAcresGorgeous Women Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.” IfsWayHas BeensSufferingDistanceObservation Book:Regarding the Pain of Others Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” NeedsMindHas BeensStillsHomeLostFunHoursDifferencesViewsSecretCreativityChangedDistanceHolidayLuggageHassleLouvreHome HomeMachu PicchuView From The Top Author:Jonah Lehrer
“It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.” YearsHas BeensHardSuccessfulFeminismHugeDistanceContinentsPatriarchyMeasure Of Success Author:Gloria Steinem
“But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.” IfsShouldHas BeensSaidEnoughWould BeEarthForceVirtueDegreesStonesDistanceResistanceAttractiveSensible Author:Johannes Kepler
“It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.” MenHas BeensTwoHandsLinesFeetMiddleEqualDistanceFingersHeightSoleCrownsStraight LinesTwo HandsMiddle Finger Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)