Words matter. These are the best Which Quotes from famous people such as Wassily Kandinsky, Giuseppe Mazzini, Maria Sibylla Merian, John P. Kotter, Ram Dass, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Be that self which one truly is.
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
The Lord gave us two ends – one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times in which we live.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
In a competition, there’s always winners and losers. And I think everyone is here to win, which makes it fun for us all.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Strangely enough, when the Sugababes’ ‘Freak Like Me’ went to number 1, which was built around my ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric’ song, I had another song called ‘Rip’ go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn’t say anything about it. Then the liar isn’t sure which lies are compromised.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
