To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
One can take eternity and time to be predicates of God since, being the Ancient of Days, He is the cause of… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name,… — Jonas Hallgrimsson Copy Share Image
Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public… — Jason Epstein 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
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I let go of the notion that the Bible is a divine product. I learned that it is a human cultural product,… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
“Behold, the Cavern of Ages,” Lord Aeratas pronounced, reverently. “Depository of our ancestors’ enneagrams, held within the living stone for all eternity.”… — Terry Mancour Copy Share Image
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There is truth in little corners of our lives. There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes. It's familiar, like… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
We have a text before us, an ancient text, a living text, and we try to enter it, not only to decipher… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature,… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It is incumbent upon the Aghsan, the Afnan and My kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think you have to realize that most ancient warfare is really kind of hit and run, honestly. You go and you… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you… — Jon Krakauer 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
I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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