Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
I am deeply concerned that Sri Lanka, despite the opportunity provided by the end of the war to construct a new vibrant,… — Navi Pillay Copy Share Image
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not… — Allen Frances Copy Share Image
I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter.… — Milton Avery Copy Share Image
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact,… — X. J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
