In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to… — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
Marvel has this tradition, and I think that Sony has this tradition too, of hiring directors for Spider-Man who are dramatic directors.… — Amy Pascal Copy Share Image
When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
In the Confucian tradition is a simple formula that appeals to me deeply: 'If there is righteousness in the heart, there will… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches,… — Harryette Mullen Copy Share Image
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“...tradition helps man discover his true conscience and dignity; it allows a man to awaken his metaphysical essence and to accomplish his… — Raido Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture -… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are… — Frederick Osborn Copy Share Image
In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The Goons were always one of our favourites; we always felt we were in that tradition - Goons, Monty Python, Peter Cook,… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves… It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I go into the Hebrew Scriptures frequently, looking for different ways in which minority voices have expressed the reality of God, and… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“Good storytelling is one thing rural whites and Indians have in common. But native Americans have learned through harsh necessity that people… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things… — Hillary DePiano Copy Share Image
“A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one’s feet and then beat a quick retreat to… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“Why should we celebrate These dead men more than the dying? It is not to ring the bell backward Nor is it… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
![“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a…” quote by Ketch Secor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/216/ketch-secor-28477_american-music_i-enjoy-writing-songs-that-could-have-be_1676687.jpg)
