Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century,… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is… — Nicholas Eberstadt Copy Share Image
A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because… — Daniel Kemmis Copy Share Image
You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever. — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
