The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up,… — Jorge Cruise Copy Share Image
“The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love That fights to keep us rooted in the earth, But also urges us… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
