“Answers seemed to float through the space around him. It was about love. It was about getting handed at conception a gift… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a… — Val Logsdon Fitch Copy Share Image
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to… — Epeli Hau'ofa Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my… — Tecumseh 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
We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel;… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul 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
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
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
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
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