[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for… — David Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as… — Warder Clyde Allee Copy Share Image
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...… — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.” — Katina Ferguson Copy Share Image
Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Is there another way? Of course there is. There is a way based on simple moral principles: Everyone keeps his own money.… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with… — Mencius Copy Share Image
I think the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party is that it is identified as a party organized around… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image