Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
You don't get roles like leading character in 'Christine' very often because people don't really like women on film to be unlikable.… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Whether Osama bin Laden is doing it cynically and has no interest in these matters, or whether he's doing it out of… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face… In… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Charisma- the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and… — Martha Barnett Copy Share Image
We with Michael Jackson were in the studio recording some work on "Man in the Mirror" or the duet. I can't remember… — Siedah Garrett Copy Share Image
“We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
People are going to think what they want to think. I let them. You can’t control perception. It’s a losing game so… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
