It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30AM, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb.… — Pooja Copy Share Image
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Once we know how observant a person is in terms of church attendance, nothing that we can discover about the content of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
My social life goes in bursts, where I get like, "Oh, I gotta get out and do something, man, I gotta do… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words… — Alain Finkielkraut Copy Share Image
Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these tests, — a country where knowledge cannot be diffused… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the… — Joseph Frank Copy Share Image
“A rich social life (measured by quality of experience rather than quantity of friends) contributes to good health, happiness and longevity. So… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The self is configured in ways that both reflect and influence the very foundations of social life and everyday living. Without the… — Philip Cushman Copy Share Image
“The multiple human needs and desires that demand privacy among two or more people in the midst of social life must inevitably… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
“(Patrick) Henry rightly understood that the moral condition of the American people was a direct product of their religious faith, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in… — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We use the word cross in our hymns, in our piety, in our prayers, and in our pastoral language. But we use… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded… — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which...lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of… — Alain Daniélou Copy Share Image
“Yeah, but you’re lucky, Janey, he said. You have so many good friends. You have people to do stuff with. You have… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“in contrast to the Hegelians of the right-wing, Marx made an honest attempt to apply rational methods to the most urgent problems… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Interest in academic system-building is dead; however, greater are the efforts by which every educated person seeks to draw the guiding strand… — Ivan Kireyevsky Copy Share Image
“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word “meritocracy” is an argument-starter, and I have employed it… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Ella finds this story inside herself: A woman, loved by a man who criticises her throughout their long relationship for being unfaithful… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
