#verne

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#always #cleverness #discovering #fuss #magical

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#governed #mankind #more #reason #than

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#constitution #denies #different #embodied #equality

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#distance #governed #governments #their #weakening

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#already #begun #certain #dream #dreamed

Cleverness is not wisdom. ↗

— Euripides

#cleverness

The bold are helpless without cleverness. ↗

— Euripides

#cleverness #helpless #without

The world is governed by opinion. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#governed #opinion #world

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#characteristic #governed #whim