How many of y'all wondered, like I did, during the LA riots when those people were being pulled out of their trucks… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It can be embarrassing paying someone a compliment, but, in the modern world, these don't even have to be done out loud.… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“It was all very well being a modern society, but the advent of prosperity and the growth of the towns was a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Just a decade before, in the wake of the Vietnam War and with his agency’s budget slashed, Stephen Lukasik had appealed to… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“In the modern world all terrors could be gutted by simple use of the transitive axiom of quality. Some fears were justified,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“True genius is the one of the heart, not of intellect. Because intellect-less heart, though exploited a lot, still does good, whereas… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Western capitalist society, and especially my own American society, is one characterized by great inequalities. In any such society, by the nature… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“As we age and plasticity declines, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to change in response to the world, even if we… — Norman Doidge 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… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
“My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is all we can say about a certain category of men in view of the fulfillment of the times, a category… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The all-pervading disease of the modern world is the total imbalance between city and countryside, an imbalance in terms of wealth, power,… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“People are vaccinated with dangerous chemicals during their childhood, indoctrinated with immorality through television while growing up, taught to reject God by… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“We fight for autonomy over so many areas of our lives - for decency and democracy and freedom, for suffrage, for the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw did 500,000,000,000 multiple choice questions on a computer test about companies racing for global leadership have to consider competing in… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
“It is tempting to look back at Bear’s people from the perspective of this modern world and see them as changeless and… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“It may be that considerations of justice are a central element of ethical thought that transcends the relativism of distance. Perhaps this,… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“The equality in political, industrial and social life which modern men must have in order to live, is not to be confounded… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image