The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty.… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
“The true significance, then, of absolute music is that it expresses human personality at its finest moments, adequately, beautifully and spiritually, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley.… — Stuart Campbell Copy Share Image
That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city.… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm the eldest of six kids, and I think that may have some significance. I think there's some correlation between maybe being… — Harry West Copy Share Image
The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all…It maybe humbling to admit there are only… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important.… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to… — Dale Rex Coman Copy Share Image
I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent...… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image