What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in… — George Bird Evans Copy Share Image
“Humans are more or less identical except for a few peculiar habits generally delineated by geographic circumstances and historical precedent. But essentially,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
He had the kind of face only a mother could love. If that mother was blind in one eye, and had that… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals.… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a speed demon. I ride my motorbike every weekend. I've had bikes since I was a kid and… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchhoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchhoff has made a… — Robert Bunsen Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same… — Frederick H. Evans Copy Share Image
Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Look, Iraq and Iran would fight for years and years and years, it went on forever. They were almost identical strengths, and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the… — Chien-Shiung Wu Copy Share Image
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Among a million Russian huts you will never find even two that are exactly the same. Everything that lives is unique. It… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Absolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“...discovering you are not identical with yourself even in the most disturbing and painful way still contains the glimmer, however refracted, of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image