Johannes Kepler Quotes

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

It's quantity, not quality.

You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

I don't want to say why I should be picked over somebody. I just want to say why I should be picked for any team.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

A gramme is better than a damn.

The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.

In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.

There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.