Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it,… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it. — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied? — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'... — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement… — Sonny Bono Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Darkness is a lower energy than light, and when you bring light to the presence of darkness you don't have to warn… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
