Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“For myself I have now no faith in miraculous conception. I have given it every chance. I have spent many mornings at… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people,… — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“I understood that assisted conception was the antithesis of careless, spontaneous or unplanned parenthood, that it was the most deliberate of decisions,… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Creation is a process where something seems to come out of nowhere. You are an example of this, because you exist right… — Derek Lin Copy Share Image
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through… — Jules Verne 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
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
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
