Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.
Ray Bradbury
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
Nancy Gibbs
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
Emanuel Celler
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
John Travolta
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
Gaston Bachelard
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
Vernon Lee
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.
Angela Davis
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.
Xenocrates
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Bela Lugosi
Everybody look at you strange, say you changed
Like you work that hard to stay the same.
Jay-Z
The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.
Christopher Hampton
