Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series… — Greer Garson Copy Share Image
All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Roy Hodgson's appetite to want to work at the age of 75 is admirable. Roy was my manager at Blackburn in 1997-98… — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
That’s why it is important to enjoy the journey not just the destination. In this world, we will never arrive at a… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image