Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat,… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are… — Robert Beer Copy Share Image
