The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what to do with this new reality, the horror of my conception. I wanted to bury it in the… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences,… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor.… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
America's grand strategy did not come from nowhere. It followed from our deeper conception of ourselves, and our American identity. Who are… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
There is a conception in this country about luxurious things that we have to save them for a time that's right. But… — Ralph Rucci Copy Share Image
Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months… — Susun Weed Copy Share Image
The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts;… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of… — Bill Struth Copy Share Image
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the… — Friedrich Ratzel Copy Share Image
..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
