[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this… — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?…The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know if most people have truly taken on board what this says about our place in the natural world. It… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“That’s unnatural.’ ‘Some would call it a miracle. Careful of the word unnatural. It reeks of arrogance. You are assuming you know… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he… — Bible Copy Share Image
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The… — Stephen Russell Copy Share Image
Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this...sometimes it seems to me… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“During the taxi ride on the way to the hotel, I had to laugh to myself as I experienced another special moment… — Heather Anne Talpa Copy Share Image
It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“After this happens, Denny will be free to live his life, and I will return to earth in a new form, as… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a… — Val Logsdon Fitch Copy Share Image
Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
“My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find… — Cicero Copy Share Image
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Teach your kids to begin to view themselves as an organism that lives in an ecosystem. They're not living outside of nature.… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is… — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“We are images of Adonai, and are responsible for one another, and for taking care of all on earth created by Adonai:… — Laura Weakley Copy Share Image
“Only the top floors of the tallest skyscrapers pierce the otherwise featureless landscape, some of the buildings sit at bizarre angles, as… — B.D. Messick Copy Share Image
Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals.… — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will… — Allan McNish Copy Share Image
“I have no other passion to keep me in breath. What avarice, ambition, quarrels, law suits do for others who, like me,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“As with all mammals and many other animals, it was simply the natural order of things that the innate attachment drive itself… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
The White Lion message, nature's message, is unfolding at this very moment. It is radiant and magnificent. And it is not too… — Linda Tucker Copy Share Image
“Statistical algorithms greatly outdo humans in noisy environments for two reasons: they are more likely than human judges to detect weakly valid… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image