Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart.… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx)… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences,… — James Mill Copy Share Image
“Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.” — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
Obviously, people have a lot of different dreams of where America should be, and where it should fit into things. Obviously, very… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The forces of things, the beings of the Universe, interpenetrate, divide and unite themselves according to eternal laws. But the laws of… — Heinrich Zschokke Copy Share Image
We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
“She could envision Jesus out on the stormy waves calling her to join him, and not be distracted by the laws of… — Lynn Byk Copy Share Image
Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only… — Peter van Inwagen Copy Share Image
The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner… — Friedrich Dessauer Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws… — David Brin Copy Share Image
At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
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