“Most people don’t appreciate just how peaceful an era we live in. None of us was alive a thousand years ago, so… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her.… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A thousand years ago Italian—or, more precisely, the Florentine dialect of the time—had no words for “art” or “artist.” Arte meant “guild,”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Good” has been used for almost a thousand years as an adverb, even though usage commentators and peevers have condemned this use.… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, some people did that for a living. They would just sit on a tree branch or a stone bench… — Patric Juillet Copy Share Image
“I believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is decided by the Mother, or the Cauldron, or some sort of tapestry… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“The obvious question is, what are the “conditions to which presumably we are genetically adapted”? As it turns out, what Donaldson assumed… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding—a conical… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“the entire history of our family has played out in the fields and villages stretching away beneath that fell, between Lake District… — James Rebanks Copy Share Image
At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
And as I recall, you told me to shut up. (Acheron) I’m an asshole. I admit it. I’ve been going to weekly… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“To we moderns the sensation of being in a constructed environment is so ubiquitous as to be invisible—in the cocoon of our… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“To care about weaving, to make weavings, is to be in touch with a long human tradition. We people have woven, first… — Phylis Morrison Copy Share Image
“The history of Vietnam lies in this bowl, for it is in Hanoi, the Vietnamese heart, that phở was born, a combination… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“Postmillennialism. Technically, any belief that Christ will come after the “thousand years” is postmillennial. As popularly used, however, postmillennialism is the belief… — Jonathan Menn Copy Share Image
So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time,… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
“I didn’t even know he knew any mellow shit. Dear gods…is he ill? (Urian) I don’t know. In nine thousand years, I’ve… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“But rituals turn us all into fucking idiots. Like those birds that sleep with their heads facing backwards because their ancestors slept… — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God,… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
“Matter is lazy. It resists change. It wants to keep on doing whatever it's doing, whether that's sitting still or moving. We… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and… — Robert Blatchford Copy Share Image
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
“My complaint is not against the work that the churches have done, but the work that they could have done through leadership… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to… — David Berg Copy Share Image
