“The first something to be implied by all the nothing was in fact two somethings, who were God and Satan. God was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“IT is proverbially easier to destroy than to construct ; and as a corollary of this proverb, it is easier for readers… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“...he was presently rewarded with the sight of the present day disgrace of England. Out of the bathing tent, and into the… — Henry De Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
“The “rising tide” theory rested on a notion of separate but equal class ladders. And so there was a class of black… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Pray only thus: Our Father, without beginning and without end, like the heavens! May Thy being alone be holy. May power be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“To evoke another great phrase of the American revolutionary heritage — widely though inconclusively attributed to Thomas Jefferson — the price of… — David Andress Copy Share Image
“For years, he said, his life had felt to him like a kind of experiment. The question being, How long could he… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize,… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question.… — J. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“If this be the manner in which Italian witchcraft is treated by the most intelligent writer who has depicted it, it will… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“A century ago, in his 1905 classic work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that striving for… — Scott A. Sandage Copy Share Image
“As this book will show, objectively defined races simply do not exist. Even Arthur Mourant realized that fact nearly fifty years ago,… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
“For the tradition of the elders themselves, which they pretended to observe from the law, was contrary to the law given by… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Voters, activists, and political leaders of the present day are in the position of medieval doctors. They hold simple, prescientific theories about… — Michael Huemer Copy Share Image
People today get bored of everything very easily, their mobile, their close ones, their partner, their job, their career, their car, their… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“We sing and have done so constantly, "We thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet to guide us in these latter days."… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty. And the greatest praise to India is this: not only… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments. — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“The truth is that there is opportunity right now in your present day. Every day offers its own set of golden opportunities.” — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image