Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!
We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern; to make this consideration depend on beneficial consequences for human beings is to accept the implication that the interests of animals do not warrant consideration for their own sakes.
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.
Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.
In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.
To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
If globalization is a sphere, where each point is equidistant from the centre, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. But if globalization joins us as a polyhedron where we're all together but conserves the dignity of each. . . that's good.
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.
One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.
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.
I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.