The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“Individualism • The first of these practical philosophies is individualism. When most people today are faced with a decision, the question that… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift… — Pele Copy Share Image
You can hope and wish and pray that those things are legitimate conversions and that [Hillary Clinton] now is a different candidate,… — Jonathan Tasini Copy Share Image
Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I call my philosophy and approach compassionate conservatism. It is compassionate to actively help our fellow citizens in need. It is conservative… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a… — Nicholas Tharcher Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
“Permaculture land-use ethics invite us to protect intact ecosystems where they remain and, where ecosystems have been destroyed, to help restore them.… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
“People love walking around with labels attached to them by others or labels they give themselves. They are prisoners of roles they… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Our instinct makes us feel that we must seek our happiness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“As if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
There is a reason Christianity is violently opposed in our world while other religions and philosophies are tolerated... Biblical Christianity evokes violent… — Carman Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists… — Susan P. Crawford Copy Share Image
If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual… — William James Copy Share Image
“To the philosopher, infinity, knowledge, movement, empirical laws, etc., are things just as familiar {as family relations}. And as her dead brother… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't wish now to digress into the philosophy of the relationship between life and logic ,but we shall agree that it… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“There is, however, another avenue of utopian thought, one that is all but forgotten. If the blueprint is a high-resolution photo, then… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we"… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character… — William James Copy Share Image
“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To reform a religion, one must at first be able to recognize the follies of that religion, then only one can take… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
“We have spent centuries of philosophy trying to solve "the problem of evil," yet I believe the much more confounding and astounding… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Lao Tse, village philosopher, believed that the richer a nation is, the poorer it becomes. He believed that knowing war teaches peace,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Everything I have done in the private sector has been through an ethics review point by point by point, and I have… — Chris Collins Copy Share Image
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“Al-Kind¯ı’s work revived philosophy as living practice and introduced it in the new social environment of Abbasid Baghdad by making it relevant… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image