It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Shay," she said. "Shay McKenna," as if trying out his name, saying it for the first time. "Did you ever love me,… — Penelope Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
“[Arren] was proud of his lineage, but thought of himself as an heir of princes, one of the House of Enlad. Morred,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“Anyone could buy a green Jaguar, find beauty in a Japanese screen two thousand years old. I would rather be a connoisseur… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Aztec peasants, Babylonian shepherds, Athenian stonemasons, and Carolingian merchants spoke different languages,2 wore different clothing, and prayed to different deities, but they… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“To discover that the Universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness” is a term that has been in use for two thousand years, but most people have a very limited view of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The technological efficiency of daughter-proofing a pregnancy may make it seem as if the girl shortage is a problem of modernity, but… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“For it is beyond doubt that there is nothing which more shocks our reason than to say that the sin of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Indeed, nothing less than the understanding of God’s earth was in flux. For centuries, the church had censored scientific ideas that were… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
“For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has… — Hans Brick Copy Share Image
“Ankh-Morpork way of doing things. Heinrich had a reputation locally for cunning, but Ankh-Morpork had overtaken cunning a thousand years ago, had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“when 'the moment' one can forget about the place-who-what-where-and kept eyes into his eyes-.to see the person -listen to his voice she… — Ratna Munshi Mathew Copy Share Image
“His eyes were warm as he gazed at me. “I would do anything for you, don’t ever forget that.” Emil moved closer,… — Angela Corbett Copy Share Image
“Thus, oxytocin and vasopressin facilitate bonding between parent and child and between couples.fn10 Now for something truly charming that evolution has cooked… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I stood in the doorway of one room, lost in a meditation of the house's recurring habits. People had made love here,… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
Next time I’ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Here, in the Land of Israel, we returned and built a nation. Here, in the Land of Israel, we established a State.… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The Western Empire, supported generation after generation by half a hundred of the strongest and most remarkable men in history, from Stilicho… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Who knows when some version of our ancestors first crawled out of the ash and started jabbering at each other? Thirty thousand… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“I admit,’ said Spite, ‘to a certain melancholy when visiting vibrant cities, as is this Darujhistan. A long life teaches one just… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
When I say that "l see God," I don't necessarily mean to say that when I chant I'm seeing Krishna in His… — George Harrison Copy Share Image