[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“We can only be ourselves in the long run. Everyone can be someone else for a time. Actors have jobs for a… — Jeanette Murray Copy Share Image
“It is, indeed, in accordance with the nature of the invisible God that He should be thus known through His works; and… — Athanasius of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“I don’t need your praise to survive. I was here first, before you were here, before you ever planted a garden. And… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Jerome was a marvelous advocate of chastity: yet hear his confession: “O, how often have I thought myself to be in the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“said the closest thing to god on this earth is a woman’s body it’s where life comes from and to have a… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“One might wonder how on earth learning came to be seen primarily a result of teaching. Until quite recently, the world’s great… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“My contention throughout this book is that reconnecting to nature is one key to growing a larger environmental movement. That reconnection is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature So they can be responsible for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You’re not a natural submissive,” I said, shoving my pants down my legs. They pooled at my feet, and I stepped out… — James Cox Copy Share Image
“Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Her bedroom window overlooked the garden, and now and then, usually when she was "having a bad spell," Mr. Helm had seen… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could… — Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis Copy Share Image
“The first grand federalist design...was that of the Bible, most particularly the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament... Biblical thought is federal (from… — Daniel J. Elazar Copy Share Image
The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch… — Camus, Albert Copy Share Image
We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only… — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image