Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

Peter Singer

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

Peter Singer

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Peter Singer

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Paul Watzlawick

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

Robert Boyle

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Richard Dawkins

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

Richard Dawkins

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Richard Dawkins

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Richard Dawkins

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

Richard Dawkins

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

Richard Dawkins

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

Richard Dawkins

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

Richard Dawkins

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

Richard Dawkins

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

Richard Dawkins

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

Richard Dawkins

I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.

Richard Dawkins

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

Richard Dawkins

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Ramakrishna

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Ramana Maharshi

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

Sandra Dallas