True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential… — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Copy Share Image
Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2,… — Ermanno Bencivenga Copy Share Image
The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The period from conception to two is about the development of a baby's emotional capacities. Mum saying, 'Oh, darling, I love you,'… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human… — Francis George Copy Share Image
One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
The most common conception of Capitalism is that it is an economic system consisting of privately owned businesses and large corporations that… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir]… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves.… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and… — David Berg Copy Share Image
It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image