If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The world is the way it is now because of five thousand years of ingrained structures of power based on darker times… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“While Socrates and Plato were searching for answers to these important questions over two thousand years ago, it’s a strange situation we… — Mark Dice Copy Share Image
“Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“In the silence punctuated only by their footsteps, both men thought not of themselves but of a Man who once made a… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“ The Renaissance After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe began a period that is called the Middle Ages, or the… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
“If you ask an average yoga teacher what yoga is, you usually get a little talk on “union” and how the practice… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
“They won't take the time to see that Gem's claws aren't extended, that his arms are gentle around me, or that my… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“The thing that weighed on him most, however, was the irrationality of the world in which he now found himself. To some… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
“Samwell Tarly looked at him for a long moment, and his round face seemed to cave in on itself. He sat down… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“After all, when we had all the books we needed, we still insisted on finding the highest cliff to jump off. But… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“So what is love then is it dictated or chosen (handed down and made by hand) Does it sing like the hymns… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“I thought I heard an axe chop in the woods It broke the dream; and woke up dreaming on a train. It… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“wanted to come right out of my chair at the witness table and scream, You guys have been in business for over… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“To compare the rate of progress of the biological evolution of intelligence to that of technological evolution, consider that the most advanced… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Everybody's gotta die sometime. But until then we've still got fifty-some odd years to go, and a lot to think about while… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant… — John Medina Copy Share Image
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
