Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could… — Webster Tarpley Copy Share Image
On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
“I don't know how this works. Or why. I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago. I'm never going… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock… — Mike Schmidt Copy Share Image
The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Good Morning, on July 7 My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
He was one of those people who made you feel like they either didn't know or didn't care that you were in… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality'… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
I'm able to behave like the guy you see onstage although that's not my entire existence. I might be a portion of… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny.… — Vsevolod Meyerhold Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“The key to receiving what you’re manifesting is to exist in the state of already having it. Ask yourself how you would… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but… — Aaron Betsky Copy Share Image
In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm very sentimental and ambitious. I like to be relaxed and I like to live a peaceful existence, but that's very difficult… — Monique Coleman Copy Share Image
It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion. Sensations are an illusion. Reality, for the most part, is an illusion. The illusion is, perhaps, the most… — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist,… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you must die a little to become immortal, then both Ali and Frazier died a bit that night in their third… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
