Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings – whether it’s views or the things you’re doing in your life, your relationships – and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong...

It’s just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am – no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.

A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before...

The real wealth or worth of a person is a candid and collective opinion of his closest companions about his indelible image presented or projected in his absence than presence.

There is no higher authority.

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. – Nakajima (Gin no...

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

Before them is the most beautiful city she has ever seen, has ever imagined. Golden rooftops shine brightly; windows made from diamonds and rubies gleam; tall buildings reach toward the clouds. She is again overwhelmed,...

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.

When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.

People aren’t really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word ‘nationalism.’

I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realised that I was in for trouble at the last part of my speech dealing with the...

The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.

I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

I am not ready to back away from my views.

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. […] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he...

Knowledge of Self is very important, you can’t be living in a world pretending to be someone you’re not. No one will ever believe in you, when you don’t have the courage to believe in...

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist,...

Sometimes some views are really helpful to forgetting our whole day stress.

I’m kind of an evangelical atheist.

When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

But maybe that isn’t possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it’s the definition of madness to believe I’m right and everyone else...

It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be deduced from the knowledge of a hundred facts may be...

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: … Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future...

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire.

You are always going to get extreme views around coaches and players.

I have no rules. For me, it’s a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You’re looking...

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Well look, I don’t begrudge anybody in the voters and their views.

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances,...

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can’t be told that I’m wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn’t to do with receiving criticism and responding...

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers...

Who that prohibits two people who have different views about God to love each other?

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as...

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or...