“Suffering was not a punishment from beyond or a malevolent infestation of the soul. Like the earth turning on its axis or… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
“It might be truly said, that now I worked for my bread; ‘tis a little wonderful, and what I believe few people… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“The image of a wood has appeared often enough in English verse. It has indeed appeared so often that it has gathered… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fear is: this… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“What is the inherent nature of the relative self (pratisthit atma) like? It mimics what it sees, it does not have to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the… — Nigel Gibson 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
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which… — Georg Prochaska Copy Share Image
“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Vespers In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment. I must report failure in my… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
“You come from the heart of nature, but then you put houses, cars, computers, etc., between yourself and nature. Why are you… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Faith is something designed by Allah the almighty and it cannot be altered or changed by anyone. it is destined to each… — Lamin Sarjo Njie Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that love is not a person. It is not of this earth at all. It wasn't until… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“We're on this earth for a limited amount of time," he says, leaning on the edge of the window. "But if we… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“XXXIV My Dreams* I can’t sleep but they can. Dreams are alive with the weeping dead. No place on earth was found… — Michael Bee Copy Share Image
It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“It was a color I didn't realize the earth could make without the help of human beings. I knew the water would… — Margot Berwin Copy Share Image
“discrimination had to be justified by “scientific” evidence showing that human nature differs according to age, gender, and “race.” Until the 1700s,… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness.… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air… — H. Peter Loewer Copy Share Image
“Ecologically considered, it is not primarily our verbal statements that are "true" or "false," but rather the kind of relations that we… — David Abram Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We humans are in such a strange position—we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique—unlike… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was not his nature to believe that he should engage in any kind of meddling or become actively involved in politics.… — Carola Giedion-Welcker Copy Share Image
“Many people believe that if something comes from nature, it must be better than something synthetically made. Hence, the all-too-common (and meaningless)… — Michael Matthews Copy Share Image
“Since I've moved here a Chinese takeaway on the main street has ominiously renamed itself from whatever it was before to the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“He is saying, as he says extensively in Romans 8, that the whole creation is longing for its exodus, and that when… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his… — Boethius Copy Share Image