No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own…style. Conversely, to put very fine… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get… — Du Mu Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but… — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of… — Barry Loudermilk Copy Share Image
Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I don't think that Donald Trump represents the traditional Republican values and heritage of my party. That's one reason that I don't… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love,… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward… — Roger G. Ibbotson Copy Share Image
I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of… — Buck Rodgers Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
“The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes… — Albert Gallatin Copy Share Image
Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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