“Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty. And the greatest praise to India is this: not only… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“The gallery context of Scotch Myths puts the objects on display in an interrogatory framework in a way that their presence in… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
“We sing and have done so constantly, "We thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet to guide us in these latter days."… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“For the tradition of the elders themselves, which they pretended to observe from the law, was contrary to the law given by… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. A huge volume of sensational and often… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Voters, activists, and political leaders of the present day are in the position of medieval doctors. They hold simple, prescientific theories about… — Michael Huemer Copy Share Image
People today get bored of everything very easily, their mobile, their close ones, their partner, their job, their career, their car, their… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The first thing I encountered on entering the museum was the earliest steam engine built in England. As I walked on, marveling… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“On May 21, 1941, Camp de Schirmeck, Natzweiler-Struthof, located 31 miles southwest of Strasbourg in the Vosges Mountains, was opened as the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“A century ago, in his 1905 classic work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that striving for… — Scott A. Sandage Copy Share Image
I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“As this book will show, objectively defined races simply do not exist. Even Arthur Mourant realized that fact nearly fifty years ago,… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
“You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question.… — J. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Bultmann compellingly suggests to his readers in 1941 that precisely therein does the state as embodied by Pilate still distinguish itself from… — Hammann Konrad Copy Share Image
“It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize,… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“If this be the manner in which Italian witchcraft is treated by the most intelligent writer who has depicted it, it will… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Morgan’s argument that prehistoric societies practiced group marriage (also known as the primal horde or omnigamy—the latter term apparently coined by French… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“For years, he said, his life had felt to him like a kind of experiment. The question being, How long could he… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“To evoke another great phrase of the American revolutionary heritage — widely though inconclusively attributed to Thomas Jefferson — the price of… — David Andress Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“The “rising tide” theory rested on a notion of separate but equal class ladders. And so there was a class of black… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“...he was presently rewarded with the sight of the present day disgrace of England. Out of the bathing tent, and into the… — Henry De Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
“Pray only thus: Our Father, without beginning and without end, like the heavens! May Thy being alone be holy. May power be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the “Pepper… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image