Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Richard Dawkins

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

Richard Dawkins

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

Richard Dawkins

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

Richard Dawkins

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Richard Dawkins

The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.

Richard Dawkins

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

Richard Dawkins

To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Richard Dawkins

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Richard Dawkins

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Richard Dawkins

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

Richard Dawkins

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

Rebecca Goldstein

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Roman Jakobson

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

Ramana Maharshi

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Sigmund Freud

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Sigmund Freud

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Sigmund Freud

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Sigmund Freud

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Samuel Johnson