Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I know that some people feel that cooking is time consuming, but cooking is an activity that you can do for yourself… — William Katt Copy Share Image
This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen,… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the… — Armin Mohler Copy Share Image
Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by… — Aditi Shankardass Copy Share Image
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
My travels to the Far East occurred primarily during the 1960's. Naturally, I have returned many times since. Of course, there was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results . . . Praying is an activity upon… — David Bryant Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever.… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
To pull at a rope at which others happen to be pulling is not a shared or conjoint activity, unless the pulling… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There are many activities that human beings have been doing "forever." We might argue from that perspective that eating meat should be… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image