The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in… — Paul Sweezy Copy Share Image
We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity;… — John Woodward Copy Share Image
There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature,… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
“Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after fifty years of… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out.… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
No, I had never intentionally caused anyone physical pain, but I had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself. Human lives… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one… — Saadi Copy Share Image
If you came to my house and said, "Well, here's the new Katy Perry record," I would give it a listen, but… — John Seagall Copy Share Image
I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Climate change is the sine qua non of continued civilization. We either solve this, or it's lights out. Turning into a collective… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
