What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that we're not creating jobs the way we used to create jobs in Pennsylvania. I lament the… — Tom Wolf Copy Share Image
It is not hateful to say that an immoral action is sinful. On the contrary, the most compassionate thing we can do… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then,… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years… — Victor Francis Hess Copy Share Image
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of… — Rebecca Romijn Copy Share Image
Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration.… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
