The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
“The right reason and motive for success, while pursued in the right way, will trigger divine support, human celebration and personal fulfillment… — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
“Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler,… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives… — Bruce Greenwood Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to… — Jack Dempsey Copy Share Image
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
