Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility? Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
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Quote:- Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Author:- Molly Peacock
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Is Bliss then, such Abyss,I must not put my foot amissFor fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my footThan save my Boot --For yet to buy another Pairis possible,At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once.The Patent lostNone buy it any more --
I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Author:- Emily Dickinson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Is déjà vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality?
Recursion
Author:- Blake Crouch
Category:- time
Quote:- Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?
Embers
Author:- Sándor Márai
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walter gave no Answer I jested with him further to break his Melancholy humour: What is Dust, Master Pyne?And he reflected a little: It is particles of Matter, no doubt.Then we are all Dust indeed, are we not?And in a feigned Voice he murmered, For Dust thou art and shalt to Dust return. Then he made a Sour face, but only yo laugh the more.
Hawksmoor
Author:- Peter Ackroyd
Category:- time
Quote:- Is God the ultimate mystery (non-answer), or the ultimate answer? If you can’t understand God, why would you worship him? You have, by your admission, no idea what you are worshiping. In fact, it’s clear from the history of Abrahamism that billions of people have worshiped the Devil and called him God. They would of course not have made this fatal error if they had understood God.
Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis
Author:- Rob Armstrong
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Is it an unseen force that propels you and me toward each other?Often when I look at the Sky, I wonder should I ask the Sky this question? Maybe, the Sky feels the same unseen force for the Moon, just as I feel for you?
Author:- Avijeet Das
Category:- Love
Quote:- Is it better to be loved or feared?
The Prince
Author:- Niccolo Machiavelli
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
Postcards from No Man's Land
Author:- Aidan Chambers
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?
Author:- Antonio Gramsci
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours.
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Author:- Vera Nazarian
Category:- hope
Quote:- Is it later yet?
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
Author:- Jennifer E. Smith
Category:- time
Quote:- Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.
The Age of Reason
Author:- Thomas Paine
Category:- science
Quote:- Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it
Moby-Dick or, the Whale
Author:- Herman Melville
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Is it not knowledge that doth alone clear the mind of all perbutations?
Author:- Francis Bacon
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
Author:- Jeremy Bentham
Category:- philosophy,best
Quote:- Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?
Chains
Author:- Frigyes Karinthy
Category:- philosophy