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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn. — Robert H. Jackson
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. — Aristotle
The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect… — Seneca the Younger
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy. — Albert Bandura
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we… — Elizabeth Bowen
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of… — James Cameron
What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone,… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. — Henry Ward Beecher
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating… — Thomas Paine
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden… — A. Whitney Brown
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of… — Anatole France
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians.… — Louis Kronenberger
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not… — William Hazlitt
Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound… — Ambrose Bierce
There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead. — Saadi
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. — John Ruskin
The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous. — Julian Huxley
Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the… — Cory Doctorow
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe. — Clement of Alexandria
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a… — Tertullian
Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain… — George Washington

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