One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Within the sound of my voice are individuals who have received the ordinances of the temple and for various reasons have not… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In fact, a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When it comes to fertility, there are so may things that have to go right. In any one individual, there might be… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
Why are we so addicted to factual knowledge? Why are we so uncomfortable with the unknown? Is it something about the anxiety… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual… — Jeff Schaffer Copy Share Image
I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“I think that the individual cannot exist in a vacuum. Cannot exist in isolation. He is the member of a tribe, a… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Responsibility is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends… — Jimmy Johnson Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely… — James Keller Copy Share Image
“Look everywhere. There are miracles and curiosities to fascinate and intrigue for many lifetimes: the intricacies of nature and everything in the… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones;… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In the transfer society, the general public is not only poorer but also less contented, less autonomous, more rancorous, and more politicized.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image