Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“JENNET: They also say that I bring back the past; For instance Helen comes Brushing the maggots from her eyes, And, clearing… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“People view us and our vampires as abominations," Ghastek said. "They call the undead inhuman, not realizing the irony: only humans are… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Mother. Father. I am sorry. I have failed you both. I made a promise to protect our people, Mother. I thought if… — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
“Maybe. Maybe not. Look, the Latin name for this fish is Carcharodon carcharias, okay? The closest ancestor we can find for it… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“If philosophy had the power to establish incontrovertible truths, immune to doubt, and if philosophers were as a rule wholly disinterested practitioners… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I had a good time that night, too," Michael said, "but I kept thinking, This is forever. This is forever. You will… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“On present-day Earth we have the most Christ-like nation in human history, a civilization built on loving kindness and demilitarization. They are… — Doug Ten Rose Copy Share Image
The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“There’s another story I know. This one doesn’t have any swords or visions. This one is about a boy who found a… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Well, the Romanies have been around for five thousand years, longer than any nation. And why? Because we know how to survive.… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“So I hold out my arms to my Redeemer, who, having been foretold for four thousand years, has come to suffer and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“...Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I was twenty years old at the time. Three years earlier I had experienced for the first time the new life, the… — Don Richardson Copy Share Image
“How has the incessant, grinding campaign of socio-scientific insistence upon the naturalness of sexual monogamy combined with a couple thousand years of… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
“You think so?" The boy looked down at his cross-legged form. He was sitting straight-backed, legs folded neatly in the manner of… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Many Christians are raised believing that to be true to God's Word means to accept that the universe, Earth, and life were… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
I believe that beyond the arena of art, the world would be a much better place if centered around a feminine perspective.… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
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All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“The irony behind the Church's disdain for the practice is that European Catholics have used saintly relics and bones as intermediaries for… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the… — Rebecca De Mornay Copy Share Image
“The women will die just as much as the men will if we bomb ourselves back to the Stone Age. And then… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The historical problems with Luke are even more pronounced. For one thing, we have relatively good records for the reign of Caesar… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image