For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a… — Lala Lajpat Rai Copy Share Image
Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mind may tell you one thing but the heart can tell you a different story. Why is that? Because the heart… — Serenity Karma Copy Share Image
Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Don't ever think of bad things that could happen, and you'll have a better chance of them never happening. Don't ever think… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“For the last year and a half this room had been my 'pensive citadel:' here I had read and studied through all… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market… — Jeremy Siegel Copy Share Image
His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on… — Edward Seaga Copy Share Image
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Women don't have dicks and they don't want dicks. That amateur psychology crap that women want penises. And they certainly don't want… — Bobby Slayton Copy Share Image
In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
When you are constantly hearing offensive words and always have some irritating matter in mind, only then do you have a whetstone… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I do a lot of drug and alcohol speaking with people to stop addictions. I'm not a Bible-thumper. I don't preach like… — Sam Childers Copy Share Image
Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you read about a tree, and there is a description, you have to grow that tree in your mind. So that's… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
The first step of gratitude is to see the gift...if you are in the middle of difficulties and problems, how can you… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers… — Dominic West Copy Share Image
“Rays of sunlight danced across the motionless silverware. Solitude. Beautiful solitude. So beautiful he couldn’t stand it anymore, not when his existence… — Z.K. Kostka Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image