Basic Building Blocks

Famous quotes containing the words basic, building and/or blocks:

    For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
    Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

    People do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like our silkworms, and is suffocated in it: a mouse in a pitch barrel.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)