“Everything depends on what is being enacted. Enactment itself, since it is almost synonymous with ceremony, is, as we have seen, part… — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
“Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God,… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Using the word much as it is used in atomic physics to characterize the relationship between experience obtained by different experimental arrangements… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for good: I… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Margery," I blurted out in a passion of frustration. "I don't know what to make of you!" Nor I you, Mary. Frankly,… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“It happens thousands of times a day around the world, maybe millions, yet it is the culmination of human achievement, of human… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last couple of hours…… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it's about happiness.' 'But if you don't have any principles, and if you don't… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“We do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of misery where man is doomed to destruction. We do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected,… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
“The truth is that we're drowning in busywork, nonproductive work, everything from "creative" banking and insurance bureaucracies to the pointless shuffling of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“This is not (as you have charged) to paint religion with a broad brush. I am very quick to distinguish gradations of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I'm glad you brought it up. I wasn't sure how to approach you about it, but this makes it easier for both… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
“Desert which is immense and from above light brown or red vast rivulets of sand with no human life. As the only… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
Come on," Alec said, already stomping down the ramp. "Let's find us a squirrel." He swept the weapon back and forth as… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which is own intelligence must by now have told… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Shin-shin-toitsu-do includes a wide variety of stretching exercises, breathing methods, forms of seated meditation and moving meditation, massage-like healing arts, techniques of… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
“A charmed life is so rare that for every one such life there are millions of wretched lives. Some know that their… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which… — Solon Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Sin is misery, because it’s the perversion of our natures away from God. Sin deforms human life, which always leads to suffering.… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Society has become well versed in the methods necessary to weaken the radicalism of the Gospel by reducing Christianity to what is… — Matthew T Eggemeier Copy Share Image
