Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored… — Lerone Bennett, Jr Copy Share Image
The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent... if we come to… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Your mind is designed in such a way that you cannot have an idea on the one hand without also having the… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you love a woman, you can dominate her. That's why lovers go on playing politics with each other, dominating, possessing; the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“People seem unable to admit this principle of chance. Our spirits are not strong enough to stand the idea of life being… — Shohei Ooka Copy Share Image
“My first question is- do you have a name ? "A name? Yes." "Ah!" said the wolf. It wrote several extensive notes.… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“It exists,” Shevek said, spreading out his hands. “It’s real. I can call it a misunderstanding, but I can’t pretend that it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Until we realize that things might not be, we cannot realize that things are. Until we see the background of darkness, we… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence,… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The vitrines and shelves that I make, the objects displayed can be easily exchanged. This is a key to the work-the objects… — Josephine Meckseper Copy Share Image
It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Werner likes to crouch in his dormer and imagine radio waves like mile-long harp strings,bending and vibrating over Zollverein,flying through forests,through cities,through… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything;… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we… — John Blakemore Copy Share Image
It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of God, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of His wisdom,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated… — Maura O'Halloran Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
“We know Existence, because we are existence. We know Truth, because we are truth. We know Life, because we are life itself.… — Robert Cosmar Copy Share Image