Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise;… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
When the tribal groups of december trade Seated in the figure of crocodile And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“So as I said, the world was mutating," she said, prick, prick, pricking at the cloth, looking up at me once to… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
“The worldly [spiritual] science is methodic (kramic) in nature; one progresses “step by step”; one has to ascent one step at a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“All my life I have felt a great kinship with the madman and the criminal. Practically all my life I have dwelt… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Satan and that man is still man even after 1000 years of the righteous, benevolent rule of Christ on earth. Even under… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I'm fed most by nature; going to the beach or lying in the grass are the greatest kinds of medicine. Cooking for… — Idara Victor Copy Share Image
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties… — J. C. Kumarappa Copy Share Image
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that… — H.O. Charles Copy Share Image
I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The chief consolation for nature's imperfection in the case of man is that not even for a god are all things possible… — Imperfection Copy Share Image
...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
A real 'gentleman' is a truly noble man. He is a man worthy to command, a man of integrity, capable of exposing,… — Kathleen Scott Copy Share Image
“In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
“This is, indeed, an insightful observation. The Archbishop [Joseph L. Berardin] insists that the natural resemblance between Christ and his priests must… — Paul King Jewett Copy Share Image
“A woman was bargaining with the gardener for a piece of vine, half as big as her finger, for her miniature Japanese… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I would not want to be called a feminist. The feminists don't believe in success for women and, of course, I believe… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Lucretius wrote in The Nature of Things: Especially since this world is the product of Nature, the happenstance Of the seeds of… — Marcelo Gleiser Copy Share Image
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant that I too could be undesecrated, regardless of what I'd lost or… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of… — Theo James Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people… — John Morton Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it.… — Silas House Copy Share Image
By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image