There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody… — George Pope Morris Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular. — Kelela Copy Share Image
Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week -… — Veronica Vasicka Copy Share Image
To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No… — John Caples Copy Share Image
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
