“Since the main task of human life is to become heroic and transcend death, every culture must provide its members with an… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
Today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to… — Jenny_pajaron Copy Share Image
“started feeling real sorry for everybody, even though they were screaming and acting silly. I thought about how much work it was… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“One's ‘life’ is ‘fractured’; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life?… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which is own intelligence must by now have told… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Shin-shin-toitsu-do includes a wide variety of stretching exercises, breathing methods, forms of seated meditation and moving meditation, massage-like healing arts, techniques of… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
“A charmed life is so rare that for every one such life there are millions of wretched lives. Some know that their… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Above all, we value the dignity of every human life, protect the rights of every person, and share the hope of every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones. And when memory failed and written records were… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not… — William Blake Copy Share Image
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
“There can be no final goal for human institutions; the best are those that most encourage progress towards others still better. Without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“Don't you see, gentlemen? Reason is a fine thing, there's no question about it, but reason is only reason and only satisfies… — Dostoyevsky Fyodor Copy Share Image
“For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“unless there is a telos which transcends the limited goods of practices by constituting the good of a whole human life, the… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle… — James Madison Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
“When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
