Famous quotes containing the word basis:
“Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.”
—Thomas Traherne (16361674)
“The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Goebbels and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
“Association with women is the basis of good manners.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
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