Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people… — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of… — Sheila Jeffreys 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
I've been saying for a long time, and I think you'll agree, because I said it to you once, had we taken… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit. And nearly choked to death. It… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded… — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
The object of your training in drawing should be to develop to the uttermost the observation of form and all that it… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say,… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that.… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
