Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
What makes a show good for me, personally, is a mystery that just doesn't quit. I want to know why. Why did… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of… — Seal Copy Share Image
I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a… — Val Logsdon Fitch Copy Share Image
My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this… — Grimes Copy Share Image
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
