It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new car. Everything… — Jeanette Michelle Copy Share Image
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before… — John Scarne Copy Share Image
The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new,… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
