To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time… — Nilus of Sinai Copy Share Image
I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them,… — James Packer Copy Share Image
we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Integrity requires that I discern what is integral to my selfhood, what fits and what does not-and that I choose life-giving ways… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination,… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain -- and the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force. My reasoning they may… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies… — Don Richardson Copy Share Image
Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
We reject certain food because it is rotten. Certain food we can see is fresh. But there is this creative space between… — Sandor Katz Copy Share Image
Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement,… — Michael E. Mann Copy Share Image
I'll exercise in spurts, usually inspired by a dress that I have to fit into. But once that gown is squeezed into,… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image