Rests Quotes

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

During the rests - pray.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.