... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
“When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was:… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“To be more accurate, Eszter continued, it was only a shadow in the mirror, a mirror where the image and the mirror… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Whether the individual fights this battle in ways such that men call him good or such that they call him evil is… — Nietzche Copy Share Image
The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest… — Rumi Copy Share Image
My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience,… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now… — Gordon Campbell Copy Share Image
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect,… — Doug Ferguson Copy Share Image
We’re looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Decision that is taken, it is intellect (buddhi) that does it, till then there is the influence of the mind (which gives… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect . . . He claims that label to compensate for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind… — William James Copy Share Image
“He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
