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"eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less." »La Bruy?re
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"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse." »Brian Eno
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"The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do." »Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent." »Jonathan Swift
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"Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance." »John Schumaker
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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen." »Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2
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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss." »Winston Churchill
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"Amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent. The wise call it supreme riches, because it can never be lost, has no price, and can at no time be destroyed." »The Hitopadesa
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"A man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears to practise it. What precious things can be shown to a blind man when he holds a lamp in his hand?" »The Hitopadesa
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"By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists." »M. C. Escher
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety 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." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph." »Joseph Addison
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"In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth as excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will either openly detract from his virtues; or, if those virtues be, like a clear and shining light, eminent and distinguished, so that he cannot be safely traduced by the tongue, they will then raise a suspicion against him by a mysterious silence, as if there were something remaining to be told which overclouded even his brightest glory." »Feltham
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