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  • Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Moving Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rajneesh Quotes , Sadness Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Horace Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Museums Quotes