The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would… — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
