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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about love, solitude, sex, man

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about religion, destruction, love

To have more means often to own less.

Quote by Tudor Arghezi about olderness

Being envious means to recognize your inferiority.

Quote by Gaius Plinius Secundus about envy, being

To love the entire life a man or a woman means to pretend thatthe flame of the ame candle can burn the entire life.

Quote by Lev Nicolai Tolstoi about love, life, woman, man

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about experience, absolute

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 who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from...

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, personality, emotions, things

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, word, music, purity, talent

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Quote by William Faulkner about art, life, artists

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Quote by Walt Disney about opinion, communication, mind, man

The beauty means the elimination of excess.

Quote by Michelangelo Buonarroti about beauty, excess

To be a genius means to have endless patience.

Quote by Michelangelo Buonarroti about genius, patience

Since we mirror in an entirely different reality from what we are, this means that everything we think we are living, our own existence, our dreams and hopes, our fear of Death is a big fake, because our reality is exactly what we are not, so: Our...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about reality, death, existence, dream, fear

Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.

Quote by Kylie Minogue about country, work

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

Quote by John Wesley about good, contentment, good luck, people

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

Quote by Johannes Stark about physics, atoms, change

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Quote by Edgar Degas about painting, idea, contentment

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about anger, thinking, idea

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about truth, philosophy, reality

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Quote by Jean Piaget about reality