“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
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There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Let's start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
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“Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“My conclusion from this brief survey of the evidence is that Jesus believed himself called to act as the new Temple. When… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Social scientists in the 1970s broadly accepted two ideas about human nature. First, people are generally rational, and their thinking is normally… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Now the wood in early morning was utterly silent. She walked carefully through damp leaves, around tangles of bramble and vine, trying… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when… — Maggie Q Copy Share Image
I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We were paired up in heaven and destined to meet on earth. I am your angel and I will take you back… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Cizek had used art as the point of entry of his thinking into a whole new world of education—an avenue that had… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
“The power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“And now I have a question for you. 'Do you also put clothes on the flowers you've picked and refuse to talk… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home,… — Erich von Stroheim Copy Share Image
“Individual self should be a poor miserable thing if it were not essentially connected with the Universal Life. We can always enjoy… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
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