Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man… — George Will Copy Share Image
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Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and then goes on to add: Do… — Scott M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Hope, to me, is wishing for something good to be true. I believe it is inherent in all of mankind to hope,… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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