The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.
At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
We need to respect choices that women make.
Everyone should respect the sovereignty of the EU countries.
I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.
For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
