Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men… — Toshiko Kishida Copy Share Image
“Control, religious or political, must exist because the populace demands to be enslaved. Only when it feels sufficiently enslaved can the dissenters… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
There needs to be a public dawning - and it is beginning to dawn on some members of the public - that… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the… — Richard Stengel Copy Share Image
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions… — Mickey Edwards Copy Share Image
Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other… — Kenneth Prewitt Copy Share Image
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a… — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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