This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated by the parallels between quantum theory and the teachings of some of these ancient texts. So many of the… — Beryl Bender Birch 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
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
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
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
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
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
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage… — Carl Eckart Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, when the term "fascist" gets used, it's either talking about other countries, ancient history or it's used… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
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