Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of… — Colin McEnroe Copy Share Image
Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important… — James Christensen Copy Share Image
The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner,… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires;… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
