I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid… — Gabrielle Copy Share Image
Why do you suppose that in the last 100 years technology has evolved a thousand times further than it has in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh? — Bob Dylan 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 don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy -… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams… — Euripides Copy Share Image
As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
