What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“Our route toward spiritual evolution is radiantly clear. We all have our own unique individual journey to walk toward enlightenment. Living on… — Linda Tucker Copy Share Image
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I am coming from an older school, and I feel that you must learn to wait. There is that essay which was… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us,… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic. — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image