Athens Quote by David Brainerd

The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson… have taught man to look within himself to find God.

— Ernest Holmes

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived,…

— Richard Whately

But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been…

— Michel Foucault

“Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is…

— Thomas Moore

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of…

— Stephen King

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet…

— Stephen King

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the…

— Joseph Addison

“A highly trained scientist who is also a perfected man may eventually create a world and people it, but a dissolute unrepentant, unbelieving one…

— Spencer W. Kimball

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of…

— Plato