The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary,… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
That's a hard one because right now it seems that all I'm watching is Teletoons and Nickelodeon. You know what I love?… — Teryl Rothery Copy Share Image
Once you do a show like 'Modern Family,' which has been an amazing thing, and I'm so happy about it, it does… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall… — Frank Tipler Copy Share Image
Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
