Contemplation Quote by Nadia Boulanger

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant…

— George Bernard Shaw

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important…

— Liu Bolin

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

— Earle Birney

The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords…

— Ernst Mach

“There are those who like things just they are and will stop at nothing to keep them that way, and those who understand that…

— Margaret Wander Bonanno

“We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.”

— Alan Harrington

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…

— Sam Keen

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care.…

— Dayananda Saraswati

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes…

— Benjamin Hoff

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

— Angelina Grimke

In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop…

— Sam Keen

“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man…

— David Bowles

“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in…

— Yuval Noah Harari