Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude:… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery? — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I believe that everything is political, and as such it should concern all of us. Authors who claim they don't deal with… — Elena Poniatowska Copy Share Image
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Although the House Intelligence Committee report claims to be the definitive statement of the House of Representatives on matters of Benghazi and… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no… — Frank Fools Crow Copy Share Image
Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or… — Charlotte Laws Copy Share Image
You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
