“The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could… — David Vann Copy Share Image
“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
My natural hair is who I am. I have lots of braids, and I have lots of twists, but it's all very… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies.… — Adi Da Samraj Copy Share Image
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Chemistry comes about through the transformation of earth, air, fire and water. All chemistry is just movement within those things, and so… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“Barcelona fans labor under the touchingly innocent belief that everyone else in the world, apart from Real Madrid and Espanyol fans, is… — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say,… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
“We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Basically, we are pack animals. We may be evolving toward hive animals. The nature of the pack is that if all the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
“The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Dirt under her fingernails, the gentle breeze in her hair, and the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves like a… — Victoria Lynn Copy Share Image
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“HOW TO BECOME PART OF NATURE Pay your bills promptly Keep track of everything you spend Take taxis everywhere you go Avoid… — David W. McFadden Copy Share Image
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
“A full moon, although less splendid than that earlier on,lit everything around. Before I reached the point where I would have to… — Saramago, José Copy Share Image
“Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
One is fully conscious when he or she is the results of having been informed and instructed by the experience of his… — James Small Copy Share Image
