If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
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I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in… — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names.… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2)… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. “It’s been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother,… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
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What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force… — Frank Griswold Copy Share Image
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul.… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
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[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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