We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it… — Nicholas Blincoe Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. If you stop to think about it for a few minutes, you can’t help… — Ed Robinson Copy Share Image
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in sin… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
“Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Edmund Burke said “there is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“My son, you are just an infant now, but on that day when the world disrobes of its alluring cloak, it is… — Shakieb Orgunwall Copy Share Image
“What is a woman’s place in this modern world? I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
“With the advent of the “modern” world some twenty-five hundred years ago (and for whatever reason), these sacrificial systems were threatened and… — Sandor Goodhart Copy Share Image
Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown… — Del Howison Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“All that matters in the world is to believe. Never mind evidence or facts; as long as you believe, then you’re admired… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
We're all born listeners. And as a result of our modern lives, and living in a world that has less meaning than… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The point then is not that there is a lack of public admiration for poetry and philosophy in the modern world, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
“BE HERE NOW Do you feel fully present and engaged in the way you live your life? Do you immerse yourself in… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Believe in yourself, Zoey Redbird. I have Marked you as my own. You will be my first true U-we-tsi a-ge-hu-tsa v-hna-i Sv-no-yi… — P.C. Cast Copy Share Image
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was honoured recently to accept the position of president of Mizrachi U.K. I did so because I believe our eternal challenge… — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
