“The weak point in the whole of Carlyle's case for aristocracy lies, indeed, in his most celebrated phrase. Carlyle said that men… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it… — Avishai Margalit Copy Share Image
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Give those who are gentle strength, Give those who are strong a generous imagination, And make their half-truth true and let the… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed them, even though… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When Man will re-find himself, then demons with angels and God with the Devil will reconcile. It will be a step forward,… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“It is not any crime you have committed that infects your soul with permanent guilt, it is none of your failures, errors… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
By opposing the human in the man and thus activating the inhuman does nothing else than dehumanize that man by further alienating… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“After the Fall It will not be an easy journey. Adam is condemned to a life of ‘painful toil’ with the brutal… — Lynn Picknett Copy Share Image
“A broader danger of unverifiable beliefs is the temptation to defend them by violent means. People become wedded to their beliefs, because… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Science is some kind of cosmic apple juice from the Garden of Eden. Those who drink of it are doomed to carry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.” — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The guy [Doctor Strange], he's like most of us, he's uncorrupted flesh from the beginning of his life, he's somebody who's not… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image