“Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.” MenWayFirstsMatterUseEyeSeeingHeardParticularSourceRegardDistinctionRight WayDistinguishedJudicialSubordinatesHearsay Book:Natural Right and History Source: Natural Right and History
“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.” HumansReligionBornMy OwnViewsRaceAtheismSourceDiseaseRegardMiseryAtheistPositive AtheismHuman Race Book:Why I Am Not a Christian Source: Why I Am Not a Christian
“Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources of knowledge of which you are deprived, and seek to derive all the benefit you can from their peculiar attainments and experience.” MindCertainBoysSourceBearsBenefitsIntellectualRegardAccessPeculiarWiserDeprivedAttainment Author:John Farrar
“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.” IfsPersonsGivenMemoriesMy OwnPleasureChildhoodTalentFashionPoetProductsSourceHigherSorrowShadowRegardSacredDearPossessionTemptationAliensDelicateInclinationSpoilHigher Power Author:Hermann Hesse
“These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, taught in our theological seminaries, proclaimed as God's law in our temples of worship, let us by all means call a council of women in New York, and give it one more revision from the woman's standpoint.” IfsMenGivingMeanChildrenHandsInspirationSchoolLawWrittenAtheismTeachingNew YorkTaughtSourceWorshipFairsRegardOur ChildrenPositive AtheismTemplesCouncilProvisionStandpointTheologicalRevisionCanon Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“I have to tell you with regards to global warming that that's something, which, you're right, the scientists haven't entirely resolved, but no question about one thing, it's getting warmer, and a lot of good reasons for us to use less energy, to use it more efficiently and to develop sources here in this country that could allow us to be more independent of foreign sources.” CountryReasonUseEnergyOne ThingHavensSourceScientistRegardIndependentGlobal Warming Author:Mitt Romney