That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“This is how the wild calls you: in an impulsive moment of joy, in a timeless connection to awe, in a rebellious… — Kris Franken Copy Share Image
We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
The nurturing flow of life, extreme intelligence, beauty, and perfect harmony are active in every one of us. Yoga was developed in… — Mark Whitwell Copy Share Image
A deep, wise, and wonderful exploration of the Vedanta path for relationships both with yourself and with others. In this book, Shubhraji… — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it. — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
“People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
June [Hillary] is a very strong influence in my life and particularly now in my ancient years there is no doubt at… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Another form of prayer, called cataphatic, honors and reverences images and feelings and goes through them to God. This form of prayer… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely:… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image