Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth.… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is,… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
