Sphere Quotes

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.