...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours… — Dale E. Turner Copy Share Image
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Plato says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
We sought a tribal society, to be close to each other, not to sit behind a television with our families and not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses,… — John W. Dawson Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e.,… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“It’s a tendency that reflects the age-old understanding that (white) men can contain multitudes, while members of every other group are pitted… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity)… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of… — Johannes Gutenberg Copy Share Image
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It was the consideration of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, because it is of faith that… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image