Derive Quotes

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning. - Bertrand Russell

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. - Moses Mendelssohn

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. - Franz Schubert

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. - Robert Smithson

Words derive their power from the original word. - Meister Eckhart

With all these new programs, the administration's contention that the deficit will be cut in half in the next five years is a tall tale, derived in large part by omitting very likely or inevitable costs, including costs for proposals the administration itself hopes and intends to support. - Keith Ashdown

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations. - Ashleigh Brilliant

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace