I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads -… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
If you wake up one morning realising that you do not know anything, then you are awake. If you still think you… — Paul Lowe Copy Share Image
Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of all joy.… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love - and never complain about anything. And as you use those… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to recognize that God isn't something outside of you - a cosmic bellboy to whom you pray in order to… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
What I'm always afraid of is going "off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image