The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an… — John Maus Copy Share Image
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant… — Maturin Murray Ballou Copy Share Image
They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In Atlantis, children who were spiritually evolved from meditative practices in their previous lives were brought to the Mystery School for training… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by… — John Muir Copy Share Image
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
This ancient practice of the Rudrabhishekam, with the chanting of mantras, has been happening since thousands of years. It creates such a… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there.… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them… — Mary Ann Tolbert Copy Share Image
Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound… — MC Yogi Copy Share Image
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
