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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Quote by Aesop about philosophy

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about praise, nothing, beauty

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about pleasure, art, magic, man

The morning air, on the contrary, so celebrated both by poets and philosophers for its benign and cheering effects upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfection by persons of this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in...

Quote by William Falconer about poets, people, perfection, air, body, mind, life

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is...

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Quote by William Godwin about philosophy, man

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true, and this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Quote by George Oppen about character, reason

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each...

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

Quote by George Oppen about mathematics, rules

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a...

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about human imperfections, quiet, man, being

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about present, essential, quality, pleasure, beauty, being

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in...

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but the truth is that happines is centered in ourselves.

Quote by Franz Schubert about happiness, truth

Politics Derived from the Words of Holy Scripture.

Politics Derived from the Words of Holy Scripture.

Quote by Jacques-Benigne Bossuet about politics

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