Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I own a flower myself,” he (The Little Prince) continued, “which I water every day. I own three volcanoes, which I rake… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Overheard on a Saltmarsh" Nymph, nymph, what are your beads? Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them? Give them me.… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison Copy Share Image