“What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts… — Lila Abu-Lughod Copy Share Image
Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat… — Obert C. Tanner Copy Share Image
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
“To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
You are all adding to each other's unhappiness; you are all helping each other to be more unhappy. Every single man has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
The whole basis of working in black and white and grays became the basis of my understanding of color, because it's all… — David Small Copy Share Image
“Who are we and were are we going? Why are we, with all our "progress" so limited in understanding and sympathy and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“ Agape is disinterested love. It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Pain by itself is merely pain, but the experience of pain couples with an understanding that the pain serves a worthy purpose… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
“I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it… — Ben Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“Don't worry if you're having a hard time following this oversimplified explanation of physics' most challenging problem. For most of us, understanding… — Seth Mnookin Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
What I try to do is to create an environment that is not about the results. It's about development, and an understanding… — Jesse Marsch Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success… — Bob Wise Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic,… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
A man of discernment, meditating on the healing Divine Providence, bears with thanksgiving the misfortunes that come to him. He sees their… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I know firsthand that the characteristics of a great engineer - problem-solving skills, a deep understanding of technology, and a results-driven mindset… — Dinesh Paliwal Copy Share Image
Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
