Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory,… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Incredible how so many people have no sense of honor. How does this happen? This happens by thriving on how one appears… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“It was passages like these, where there is a clear mocking of literalist readings of Scripture, that had brought me back around… — Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Today, the established social structures and values are beginning to crumble on a global scale. This is an indication of the deadlock… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living eyes of a… — james agee Copy Share Image
“It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Too bad!' the feisty poet responded. 'Yes, too bad!' the stranger agreed, his eye flashing, and went on: 'But here is a… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, Jesus’s mission centered in the coming of God’s kingdom, the restoration of God’s rule over all creation and… — Craig G. Bartholomew Copy Share Image
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The historical problems with Luke are even more pronounced. For one thing, we have relatively good records for the reign of Caesar… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7 Beware of the pleasant view of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“When is a market free?" With regard to the first corollary identified above, freedom in Augustine's view is not simply the absence… — William T. Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, when it is your lot to have to endure something that is (or seems to you) worse than the ordinary lot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
“Obviously the most enduring way to make this commitment is through marriage. Yet because sexual liberals deny the differences between the sexes,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“It is hardly surprising that the harbinger of God's love has been accused of hatred of the human race. Who has a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with them, betraying its elitism, sexism… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since,… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
