Moves Lose Material

Famous quotes containing the words moves, lose and/or material:

    “Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved in reality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.”
    —Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)

    “These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,
    Or lose myself in dotage.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Man’s characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body’s yoke, but is subject to that of society.”
    —Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)