Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out,… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
A stronger race will drive out the weaker ones, for the vital urge in its ultimate form will break down the absurd… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place… — H. E Davey Copy Share Image
Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting.… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
“instead of beginning with a ‘definitely determined entity’ which possess certain properties and which then enters into definite relations with other entities,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“We are here to witness the creation and abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“the story the Psalms tell is the story Jesus came to complete. It is the story of the creator God taking his… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
We don't set out to be polarizing. But just by the nature of what we've always done, it seems to have a… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But… — Linda Dillow Copy Share Image
You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“You may not know it but the keeping of a large house by one girl is the hardest work going on earth.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
A hidden fire burns perpetually upon the hearth of the world… In autumn this great conflagration becomes especially manifest. Then the flame… — Hugh Macmillan Copy Share Image
“I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
A woman will test you to see if you are what you say you are. Any woman that you fall in love… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I think it's good for parents to be supportive, to motivate, and to somewhat nudge their kids because the majority of kids… — Dominique Dawes Copy Share Image
“Buddha is a precedent more than a prophet; and where Jesus came to earth as the way, the truth, and the life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Yes. I—I can't help liking her—just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image