There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural… — Hilton Hotema Copy Share Image
Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“It is said by many people that the power of the human mind is 'unlimited'. But, I do not agree with it… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
When I stop doing the things that make me unhappy, I will experience the happiness that is that natural state of being.… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
"Ju" means being natural or in other words the way which is natural and in accords with the truth of the universe… — Kyuzo Mifune Copy Share Image
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Only let it be trust in God, not in man, not in circumstances, not in any of your own exertions, but real… — George Muller Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
I think the big thing would be maybe the death of my brother. That was the hardest thing for me to take.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met… — J. J. C. Smart Copy Share Image
The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You don't really need to engage your visual sense, because the natural wiring of the human psyche is to monitor the environment… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time.… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image