Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
No one step back, that is the idea… Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling,… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration, little appreciations,… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
“Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I… — Philip Arthur Fisher Copy Share Image
“The spaces that humans allow to contain them have their own history - albeit a history that has never been told, and… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
As soon as one point alone is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion will not simply result in a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service. They are the teachers whose names will… — Mel Lawrenz Copy Share Image
Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Disciples of Jesus Christ understand that compared to eternity, our existence in this mortal sphere is only “a small moment” in space… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
It is well known that Russia has many interesting and promising developments in the military-technical sphere. We are ready to deliver the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Why, Yrael?” it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image