Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be… — Henry Gray Copy Share Image
As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient… — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being.… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach. — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That’s true,” Paul… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. — Sulla Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, [...] came to teach [the ancient inhabitants of Mexico] the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning… — Michael Brune Copy Share Image
That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
