“Here it is: agonizing over the opinions of others, fretting over the state of the world, and hiding your faith will keep… — Carey Scott Copy Share Image
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
“Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Now that it was safe to drag their relationship out into the light and examine it mercilessly it was fantastic on what… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
“democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by… — Sheldon S. Wolin Copy Share Image
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Subtle brain differences often cause people like me to respond differently—strangely even—to common life situations. Most of us have a hard time… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
“The Spirit doesn’t simply make me a singular new creation. He makes me part of God’s new creation people. He inscribes God’s… — Michael Lawrence Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good…… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The relationship between the United States and Mexico goes over and beyond the relationship between two governments. This is a relationship that… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“It’s a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull andcommon life — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living… — Gary W. Keller Copy Share Image
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“They were not spontaneous people. They were born with too great a love of words, a passion for drama at the expense… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“Give them wisdom and devotion in the ordering of their common life, that each may be to the other a strength in… — Julia Spencer-Fleming Copy Share Image
“... there is nothing harder in life than to not conform to the common life of humanity; to be an exception, to… — Violette Nakhjavani Copy Share Image
Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
