For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The average person can’t really trust anybody. They can’t trust a broker, because the broker is interested in churning commissions. They can’t… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
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Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The Berkshire-style investors tend to be less diversified than other people. The academics have done a terrible disservice to intelligent investors by… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records;… — Carl Holmes Copy Share Image
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
And religious music and the sort of symbolism of it and everything. But I had this idea. Actually, I sort of dreamt… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
For us, the idea was not to get involved more than necessary in the fight against the Russians, which was the business… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
When it comes to sticking to your resolutions, research has shown that 'action-oriented' resolutions have a better chance of being upheld than… — Brett Hoebel Copy Share Image
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is...God himself was once as we are now and is… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind;… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
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A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
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