The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Education means freedom.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
“Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled, That changing one, you change the other too;.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
Affluence means influence.
Anarchy is synonymous with Socialism. Because both signify the abolition of exploitation and of the domination of man over man, whether maintained by the force of arms or by the monopolization of the means of life.
Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.”
Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
to live means to lack something at every moment.
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.