In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image.… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
If businesses are to redeem themselves in the eyes of the public and regain the trust that they have lost, they should… — Nick Baker Copy Share Image
Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
