Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma — E.D. Baker Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms,… — Thomas Banyacya Copy Share Image
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen Copy Share Image
Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods… — Joshua Copy Share Image
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
