The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of… — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
We need to consider ancestral cleansing. If we're willing to clear our energy fields of the ancestral energies we don't want, then… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely… — Errol White Copy Share Image
I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers… — Andrew Gamble Copy Share Image
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The left looks at the Constitution and sees things that aren't there and then they find 'em. They look at things that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
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