“Work is the activity which corresponds to the unnaturalness of human existence, which is not imbedded in, and whose mortality is not… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“I am not like any of them. I am disillusioned with spirituality. I am far too well-read to devote myself to a… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we each see it… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Pascal's scientific achievements, therefore, did not give him much confidence in the human condition. When he contemplated the immensity of the universe,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“In my view, it is an error to think about 'alternatives to prison' if what we mean by that is 'electronic bracelets,'… — Karlene Faith Copy Share Image
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“The good news is that positive construal can be taught. “We can make ourselves more or less vulnerable by how we think… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“Because fairy tales contain powerful truths about the human condition, many of them, with tenacity and uncanny persistence, turn up, theme and… — Gertrud Mueller Nelson Copy Share Image
“To avoid misunderstanding: the human condition is not the same as human nature, and the sum total of human activities and capabilities… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
“Oh, one of the things that I am most proud of is that people can say, "I am an atheist," in the… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Deep in our hearts there is a call to live in communion with others, a call to love, to create, to risk.… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change? Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“...a large segment of our population appears to have moved, in its cultural beliefs, to the use of an "ideal" measuring implement,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But even if I know what governs their trajectory, if I know the rules of the movement of things and how things… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
“The cat-and-mouse scenery is not only about animals, but about our human condition. How do we live, how we are played, and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image