THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
"What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Ryssa? How do you know her name was Ryssa? (Tory) Uh…I don’t. I just gave her a name. It seemed more polite… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland, where loyalty was merely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of… — E. J. Banfield Copy Share Image
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
