I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning.… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs,… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
We have to learn that service to the greater good is the greatest satisfaction. That idea is at the basis of all… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I'm convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive - that challenge conventional thinking - and end in… — Nathaniel J. Wyeth Copy Share Image
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking.… — Ryuhei Kitamura Copy Share Image
I don't think religions will merge into a great global faith. But I do believe we're moving toward a global ideology that… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Donald Trump hasn't been specific, but if you go back over some of the campaign rhetoric, well, obviously, there's the bully pulpit,… — Greg Ip Copy Share Image
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before,… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to… — James Lankford Copy Share Image
To Amma, all are Her children. In Amma's eyes no defect of Her children is serious. But when She is considered as… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Republicans - Reagan but also George W. Bush - believed in freedom, and they believed in America's role. To have the governing… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
When I said I had always hoped to marry in my race, I really do mean that. That doesn't mean I absolutely… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat.… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
These days, the media is defining what cultural capital is, and it's easily learned. If you have money, anything can be bought.… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
