There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity;… — John Woodward Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in… — Paul Sweezy Copy Share Image
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be,… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam ["we have honored the Children of Adam"]… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite… — Paul Nicklen Copy Share Image
Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject… — Kenneth Ring Copy Share Image
War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder.… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image