Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is… — Timothy Hallinan Copy Share Image
“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
“The hours tick by as I lie in bed. Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to… — Ashley Earley Copy Share Image
The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process.… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did… — Gordon Raphael Copy Share Image
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I agree with a lot of the points in Taleb's book, but I don't agree with many of his conclusions. It seems… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul… — John R. Rickford Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
