An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is both rewarding and inspiring The preparation, research and introduction of new chapters to an ever increasing text provides… — Roy Taylor Copy Share Image
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The… — Louis Bernacchi Copy Share Image
Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did;… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account,… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
We can study various psychic functions and also the more primitive sensory functions, such as seeing, hearing, and so on, which constitute… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Albania was a very isolated country, politically, economically, and culturally. Our only connection to the world was through a radio program called… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish… — Max Born Copy Share Image
In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the… — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic… — Fritz Muller Copy Share Image
