When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family.… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image