At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Now I know, you can’t change what’s happened to you or hide it, or spin it, or get over it. All you… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“The lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
“But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essential nature) can,… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“When it is found (as generally happens) that what is observed is only similar to what he had in mind and not… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, two people are made for each other. They may come from opposite ends of the earth. Their nations may be sworn… — Caitlin Brennan Copy Share Image
“She rolled the mysterious plunkin across in front of the hearth and stared at it. It still looked disconcertingly like a severed… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked earth and the mortal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that lacks the… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
“Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Actually, the eloquence of the wilderness is not a pattern for human eloquence. There is no hardier fool than whoever shouts, "The… — Renny Russell Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Douglas could hardly do less than make a very great grievance of what was intended as a kindness. She hated a… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“It is true I have not seen the earth nor men, but in your books I have drunk fragrant wine, I have… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Today, as in the past, we ought to remind ourselves that the true natural law is not a mere congeries of appetites,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The mass hallucination of the twentieth century is this: that all these national governments, which each year kill or threaten way more… — Tyler Mcmahon Copy Share Image
I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“How to Train Your Head of State (The Sonnet) We shall achieve more by blasting politicians into space, than by blasting satellites… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for… — Paul Brand Copy Share Image
Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course,… — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
“In [this] person, he had, bewilderingly, and for the first time ever, collided with another living soul whose continued existence on this… — Adam Sternbergh Copy Share Image
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from an original… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“The domestic dog is an ancient companion of humans, and it is possible that domestication was taking place as we ourselves were… — Stewart McFarlane Copy Share Image