When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“He declares: “For in this place is One greater than the temple.” But [the words] greater and less are not applied to… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?" "Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Sex and its nature might well attract doctors and biologists; but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Weight causes things on earth to fall--to remain grounded. What if the weight of sin holds the same purpose as physical weight?… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving — on the earth the trees, in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can,… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one… — Extract from Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
“This explains the harsh nature of much postmodern rhetoric. The regular deployments of ad hominem, the setting up of straw men, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers,… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“When the knife was busy with my life's most intimate tie, my mind was so clouded with fumes of intoxicating gas that… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The Way is not remote from people, but people distance themselves from the Way by trying to nurture life without knowing how.… — Chen Kaiguo Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Human health depends above all on sound nutrition; sound nutrition means growing food and using it in accordance with nature’s laws; of… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Light and color are closely linked. The colors can make a crucial change in nature, if you switch from daylight to artificial… — Verner Panton Copy Share Image
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes I am a glimpse, I am… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image