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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that… — Bertrand Russell
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they start trapping it… — Rajneesh
Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on the mysterious that… — Rajneesh
I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more… — Rajneesh
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this… — William Blake
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that… — John Dryden
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,… — Louis Agassiz
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by… — Charles Lyell
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into… — Hugh Miller
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability… — Samuel Johnson
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for… — Seneca the Younger
And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced… — Abraham Lincoln
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind. — Abraham Lincoln
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families… — Benjamin Franklin
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method… — Richard P. Feynman
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or… — Joseph Addison
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,… — Thomas Jefferson
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about… — Ralph Lauren
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's… — Sigourney Weaver

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