If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy… — Robert Edison Fulton, Jr Copy Share Image
Bombay as a confident, welcoming city that takes in a million new people a year, that those who want to harm the… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Significance is discovered in the heart. It is here that it is cultivated and nurtured as it imparts meaning to everything you… — Michael M. Rose Copy Share Image
South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“As for the significance of my nihilism…in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts. The goal of my activities is… — Mikiso Hane Copy Share Image
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have… — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“This was Beethoven’s great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. Single-handedly he turned it… — Howard Goodall Copy Share Image
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the… — Jewel Copy Share Image
... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
“Haven’t you grasped the significance of this discovery? In the Telluric Navel you place the most powerful valve, which enables you to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
