Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Copy Share Image
If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
“Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their… — Kurt Eichenwald Copy Share Image
The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
Nothing should be used anywhere that is not edible. We should not clean our house with substances that are toxic carcinogens. It's… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human… — Malcolm Godwin Copy Share Image
Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image