Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen,… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable,… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes… — Vivianne Crowley Copy Share Image
I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in… — T. Thorn Coyle Copy Share Image
You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want. — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending.… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The word philosophy simply means a pursuit of wisdom, the purpose of life, and a search for Truth. However, this quest, because… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
