It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed. — John Updike Copy Share Image
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men… — Alison Lohman Copy Share Image
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young… — Gale Gordon Copy Share Image
The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert,… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image