Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics

One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege.

Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

Ted Allen

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact op...

Will Self

Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.

Donnie Yen

Modern critics find much that is unlovely in the religion established by the Scottish reformers. It was Hebraic and Old Testament in its emphasis, stressing the thou-shalt-nots and the denunciation of sin. It was not a religion of kindness to one's f...

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History

Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species’ best defense systems?

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things.

Marvin Sapp

There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape...

James Frey

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

Discrimination against nonwhites will not be tolerated. Discrimination against whites is fine-as long as the discrimination is done in the name of nondiscrimination.

Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

H. G. Wells

Why build entirely new systems for connecting to Christ consciousness when the institutions—whether Methodist, Lutheran, or Baptist—have already been created?

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

They built a city of their dreams, with a thriving gift economy and vibrant culture that encouraged all participants to let loose their wildest, most glorious freak. They weren’t protesting; they were celebrating.

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.

Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.

The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

Many of the pains and efforts taken to deal with the contemporary marriage are dominated by considerations of well-being, happiness, and biology. This corresponds to the position of contemporary psychology, which distinguishes itself through a deep s...

Marriage: Dead or Alive

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman