“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Sleeter Bull,* the author of the 1951 book Meat for the Table, claims the ancient Greeks had a taste for udders. Very… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?" Bryce: "No."… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
“but most scholars today believe that ancient Greek worship of her is most closely tied to the ancient Phoenician goddess of love… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“I believe that the disenchantment of the modern universe is the direct result of a simplistic epistemology and moral posture spectacularly inadequate… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Religious pluralism is a popular belief in Western culture. At first it sounds very inclusive, but it is really just as exclusive… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“You’ve saved your money and bought a ticket to Fashion Week in Milan. All the world’s great clothing designers will be showing… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks could laugh at themselves. The Romans could not. That is why France is a civilized society and Spain is… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their… — Cassius Dio Copy Share Image
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“And horse-stealing,” said the Water Rat, adding his mite. “And impersonating a washerwoman, and defrauding the rails, and horse-stealing—or did I say… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
“Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek? — A very lost Marcus Brody” — Rob MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Some 2,600 years ago the ancient Greek poet Pindar wrote, “Become who you are by learning who you are.” What he meant… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“We long for experiences “of profound connection with others,” he writes, “of deep understanding of natural phenomena, of love, of being profoundly… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“In Ancient Greek literature male poets tend not simply to portray women as lecherous but to attribute to them a species of… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“It’s like we've been flung back in time," he said. "Here we are in the Stone Age, knowing all these great things… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“Equilibrium is the state of death, only chaos produces life The Ancient Greeks have been driven to extinction by too much search… — Stéphane Lupasco Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
“Accents must have been pretty important in Ancient Greek, because a man called Herodian wrote a treatise in twenty-one books about them,… — Caroline Taggart Copy Share Image
