“The power of loving a God whom religion paints as the most detestable of beings would, doubtless, be a proof of the… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own.… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the world, is no more… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“As the systems theorist Fritjof Capra points out, humanity's social, political, economic, and environmental plights are all manifestations of a cultural crisis… — Alex Gerber Jr Copy Share Image
With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“I don't know how long I've been sitting on this park bench. The light is almost all gone, but when there was… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Many ask what difference does it make whether man believes in a God or not. It makes a big difference. It makes… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell… — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
“[We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
I am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It's a natural instinct. They don't think of the past or the future,… — Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
“Within the biblical worldview (which has not so much been disproved as ignored in much modern thought), heaven and earth overlap, and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Such fatigues and hardship as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and, I trust, will make heaven the sweeter.… — David Brainard Copy Share Image
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“A teenager’s nature is not laziness, their preferred state is not ignorance, and it is not necessary for extrinsic motivation to be… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
“The people cast themselves down by the fuming boards while servants cut the roast, mixed jars of wine and water, and all… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Today in many western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
When things start becoming second nature, I get a little paranoid because I feel like maybe my craft isn't evolving. I get… — Eugene Souleiman Copy Share Image
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image