I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression… — Tim Farrington Copy Share Image