The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
“It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a root. What's above ground is only a small part of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that… — Ernest MacBride Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“The big event that rips through the heart of things and changes life for everyone, the unforgettable moment when something ends and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous 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
“The human mind is stimulated by change, motivated by meeting the challenge of novelty or threat or pleasure, rewarded with the sensations… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If the human mind can understand the universe, it means the human mind is fundamentally of the same order as the divine… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“Even if mankind manages to be immortal in a mortal universe, this time it must find a way to make the universe… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about… — Ralph P. Martin Copy Share Image
Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
“The human mind is an illusion, so it does not exist even though it may seem to exist. However, the mind of… — Woo Myung Copy Share Image
“It is our Puritanism, insisting that discipline means repression or punishment, which confuses the subject. To discipline something, in the proper sense… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The created world, including a major portion of the human mind, is seen as evil by the Gnostic primarily because it distracts… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
“When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint.… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes… — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
“Equally condemned, in wealthy Western nations, is materialism that degrades the human mind and spirit - that can, in fact, in an… — H.W. Crocker III Copy Share Image
“Other than the substantial physiological impact of prayer/meditation, there is another much simpler mind-body intervention that helps all religious and spiritual individuals… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image