It’ll probably be brutal, too. They might even feed you to the dog. He doesn’t have a dog. Yeah, well, he might… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
When I moved back to New York as an adult, my first place had bed bugs, and I was also really lonely… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains;… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sometimes in our quest for the reasons to how and why, we will seek out those answers that would support our initial… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it… — John Berger Copy Share Image
[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics,… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
“Logic is also the theory of knowledge of Marxism, but for quite another reason, because the forms themselves of the activity of… — Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
You love the person for who they are, flaws and all. You can't help who you love, either. It comes from a… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image