A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not.… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important. — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
'Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course,… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
...pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how… — Vince Poscente Copy Share Image
If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Of course, the most troubling question is why do these people assume we're gay? — Dean Winchester Copy Share Image
I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image