An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as… — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. — Aaron T. Beck Copy Share Image
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying… — William James Copy Share Image
Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential… — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Copy Share Image
Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image