I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature… — Robert Frenay Copy Share Image
So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
“Doubtless Princess Juliana intended for me to overhear her comment on seeing Theodora in wedding regalia. “She’s like wisteria: beautiful in a… — Carol Strickland Copy Share Image
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is… — Indra Sinha Copy Share Image
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
