“Men have a great deal of pleasure in human knowledge, in studies of natural things; but this is nothing to that joy… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Fireworks made of glass. An explosion of dew. Crescendo. Diminuendo. Silence. There are drugs that work the same, and while I am… — peter carey Copy Share Image
“People belittle or ignore or even rebel against God, because they view the processes of nature as having self-sufficient causes, normally regarded… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“I’m convinced it’s the latter—that our basic nature is to be curious and self-directed. And I say that not because I’m a… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the… — William Temple Copy Share Image
“At present, in this vicinity, the best part of the land is not private property; the landscape is not owned, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled 'like the laughter of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“This is a throwback to the Aristotelian conception of nature, banished from the scene at the birth of modern science. But I… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their… — Hugh Ferriss Copy Share Image
“The perfect happiness of men on the earth (if it ever comes) will not be a flat and solid thing, like the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
“God created the angels, with their natural propensity to good. Later, he made beasts with their animal desires. But God was pleased… — Christine Lewry Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
“Though the mature dreamer seems to whisper to himself repetitively of pursuing a dream that appears to be out of his league,… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its… — Lady Hester Stanhope Copy Share Image
If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often… — Ignace Lepp Copy Share Image
“We try and map boundaries, and to string fence - we try to set up a border between life and death, between… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
“I haven't gotten better. I'm not even close to okay. The only thing I've done is to decide to get better. But… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value... Our duty is to use the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we aren’t fully developed. The physical development of human beings necessarily had to precede the psychological. Perhaps the physical nature of… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Once when I was younger I went out and sat under the sky and looked up and asked it to take me… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Regarding the passage on p. 163 of the 'Gleanings': The creatures which Bahá'u'lláh states to be found on every planet cannot be… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
“The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
