World Land Speed

Famous quotes containing the words world, land and/or speed:

    “‘Intellectualism’ is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “The land is numb.
    It stands beneath the feet, and one may come
    Walking securely, till the sea extends
    Its limber margin, and precision ends.”
    —Yvor Winters (1900–1968)

    “Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)