Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
People at present think that five sons are not too many and each son has five sons also, and before the death… — Han Fei Copy Share Image
Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if… — Paul J. Crutzen Copy Share Image
But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising… — Robert L. Reymond Copy Share Image
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end. — Qin Shi Huang Copy Share Image
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from… — Plato Copy Share Image
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well,… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image