Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services… — Andrew Robb Copy Share Image
“The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of… — Ernst Moritz Arndt Copy Share Image
After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Customs and traditions followed in North and South India are different. But the underlying sentiments are the same. — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue… — Noah Worcester Copy Share Image
