“The materialist philosophy says that in a godless world all we need do to overthrow the laws of economics and the limits… — John C Wright Copy Share Image
“You’re going to declare a rest period?’ asked Jerott. Leisure, with Gabriel there, seemed too good to be true. ‘Rumour being what… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“I think it's human nature to blame yourself. When things fuck up in life, you always want to find a reason for… — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
“As Maximus further concludes, the three laws exhibit the principal ends to which human nature is called: the natural law grants us… — John Behr Copy Share Image
“Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Rather than there being two distinct and unambiguous categories of constrained and unconstrained (or tragic and utopian) visions of human nature, I… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world… — Priscilla Stuckey Copy Share Image
Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The word corruption does not arouse the moral revulsion that it should. We think of it as more a nuisance than a… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear,… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“-that unsleeping care which must have known that it could permit itself but one mistake; that alertness for measuring and weighing event… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The Reformation is one root of the idea of human freedom and autonomy as it is represented in modern democracy. However, while… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
