There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It were better, never to look beyond the present material world. By supposing it to contain the principle of its order within… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
