Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we… — Jessica Tandy Copy Share Image
The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
