As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“Bosch knew the dawn had nothing on the dusk. Dawn always came up ugly, as if the sun was clumsy and in… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The Eucharist completes the restoration begun in the Crib. Make merry therefore on this beautiful day, on which the sun of the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The morning was on fire as the sun rose, seemingly from the ocean depths. The great, glowing orb came to the surface… — Victoria A. Kahler Copy Share Image
O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes.… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“There was nothing the matter out there. It was in here, with me. I decided I'd better go to work, maybe that… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to… — Ed Viesturs Copy Share Image
Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
“She says that she used to enjoy, when darkness set in, when the outside world changed. She describes it for me: the… — Mary Kubica Copy Share Image
A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe?… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east... It is nothing less than… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“That solar hue, that variegation of gleam and shade, made Don Fabrizio's heart ache as he stood black and stiff in a… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“When we say, 'it is well,' it is actually the hovering bird with no sense of direction on how to feed her… — Lord Uzih Copy Share Image
Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There's no one else… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse,… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Sunlight is essential to the body's ability to absorb calcium from the food you are eating. Make sure you receive adequate vitamin… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image