Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
An immortal soul, from its very nature, cannot find what it needs anywhere except in God Himself. True religion begins in the… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the… — Stacey Levine Copy Share Image
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere… — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning… — Brock Lesnar Copy Share Image
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We have in fact entered upon the final phase..., the darkest period of this dark age, the state of dissolution from which… — Rene Guenon Copy Share Image
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere… — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Kya ho tum chalo aaj main bataun kya ho tum¦ mere lye meri duniya ho tum, chu kar jo guzri woh hawa… — Zoheb Copy Share Image
A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted… — Louise Wilder Copy Share Image
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
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