The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
So how do we solve this ancient problem? How can we not just tolerate someone who believes differently than we do, but… — John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth Copy Share Image
The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures,… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I never feel like I am "using" a voice, rather I am listening to a voice and recording it as faithfully as… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
The causal body is the part of you that lives forever. It is ancient and complicated. It has lived through countless lives… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
