#beyond

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#beyond #book #case #darkness #discovering

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#beyond #either #established #fangs #fixes

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#infinity #last #nothing #proceeding #reason

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#brothers #cannot #coming #community #feed

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules. ↗

— Richard Perle

#american people #beyond #cannot #establish #explicitly

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#application #art #beauty #beyond #brain

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. ↗

— Horace Porter

#educated #his #intellect #person

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. ↗

— Sun Ra

#black #cosmos #dark #dealing #history

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#being #beyond #conceive #definition #god