This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and… — Octave Feuillet Copy Share Image
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight,… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
