#los

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#closer #even #guess #had #half

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. ↗

— Paul Valery

#gone #great #great man #leaves #loss

What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it. ↗

— Thomas Ravenscroft

#giving #had #i #left #lost

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. ↗

— Herbert Read

#compromised #continuity #feeling #historical #however

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. ↗

— Herbert Read

#immediate #nobody #past #philosophies #seriously

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. ↗

— Herbert Read

#believe #direct #economics #either #i

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#brute #curiosity #examining #food #habit

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#depression #his #job #lose #loses

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#budget #closer #come #commandments #golden