Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone can ever predict a phenomenon. It's not something you can bank on. — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
“This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.” — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury – the phenomenon is an actual fact … all of the… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon. — Bob Gaudio Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand… — James Agate Copy Share Image
The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively - I led the Series A financing for… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
“In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer. — Gabriel Lippmann Copy Share Image
The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
