The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's take back the rainbow for God. Let the homosexual community find a different religious symbol to commandeer... What I want is… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely!… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
“They were in love! Carla wore her hair up and Andrew saw everything as a sign. They spent an entire afternoon sitting… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I think jeans have gotten away from the original meaning, that symbol of freedom; they've gone gimmicky and turned into a status… — Johan Lindeberg Copy Share Image
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
There's a lot youdon't know, Sam. There's a lot I don't tell you. I know who I am. I know what I… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy:… — Frank Pittman 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
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Every view which interprets the symbolic expression as an analogous or abbreviated expression of a known thing is semiotic. A view which… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
