Famous quotes containing the words part and/or agreement:
“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)