A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Requiring the payment of higher wages will lead to a loss of some jobs and a raising of prices which drives companies… — Philip Kotler 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
There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is… — William H. McMaster Copy Share Image
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I don't think the whole of Iraq would be under al-Sadr, but I think he would be the predominant force on the… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
