I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model,… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the]… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I want you to consider this distinction as you go forward in life. Being male is not enough; being a man is… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is a great honor to be inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. When you honor me with this… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over...… — William James Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and… — Francois-Noel Babeuf Copy Share Image
“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image