If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself,… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There are ways in, journeys to the center of life, through time; through air, matter, dream and thought. The ways are not… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
I THINK IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE CONVENTIONALLY ROMANTIC YOU'VE GOT TO GO ALL THE WAY: A BEAUTIFUL DINNER SOMEWHERE LOVELY, WITH… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
When they'd been on the run, with death maybe lying in wait around any corner, they had never been more alive. When… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And… — Robyn O'Brien Copy Share Image
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
