Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist.… — Syun-Ichi Akasofu Copy Share Image
“When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists,… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out… — Bjorn Lomborg 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
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Christians actually need to be confronted by their real need-an understanding of God's holiness and their own sinfulness-so they can be usable… — John F. MacArthur Copy Share Image
I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The particular province of the shaman is the province of soul, that which feeds our embodied life, or fails to feed it.… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There have been many claims that [U.S.] sanctions have hurt Burma economically, but I did not agree with that point of view.… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It's Romney's inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image