But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
At the Berghof, it was almost like a family atmosphere there. We all ate meals together, watched films together before the war,… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund. — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“...[W]e must not let it enter our minds that there may be no validity in argument. On the contrary we should recognize… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image