The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien… — Morris West Copy Share Image
A woman called Rose has written to me every day for the last 15 years. That's dedication. It's not quite fan mail,… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle,… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun,… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims… — Ahmad ibn Rustah Copy Share Image
We mustn't claim to stand for our King but then deny Him by living a fleshly existence. Our King's Mighties don't shy… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land.… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done.… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that a moderate beer drinker - whatever that means - swallows 11 percent of his… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Suppose there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing… — Hideki Yukawa Copy Share Image