Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard,… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the… — Friedrich Ratzel Copy Share Image
The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and,… — Alice Crary Copy Share Image
To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of… — Bill Struth Copy Share Image
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image