“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. — Friedrich von Bernhardi Copy Share Image
All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“What she tried to label honesty in his candour was probably only a cynical defiance of the laws of right and wrong.” — Saki Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“In every way, we inhabit the Noosphere, the domain of nous, of mind. This cosmic Noosphere is evolving. Powerful minds are shaping… — Mike Hockney Copy Share Image
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from,… — CrimethInc Copy Share Image
Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind &… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
