He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Encounters taking the form of challenge-and-response are the most illuminating kind of events a for student of human affairs if he believes,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied,… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God,… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Using the word much as it is used in atomic physics to characterize the relationship between experience obtained by different experimental arrangements… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“There's not much to say about loneliness, for it's not a broad subject. Any child, alone in her room, can journey across… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“This is the breaking point in a human life, right here. This is waking up on an operating table to find aliens… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“The main reason for moral inconsistencies and betrayals, Ayn Rand believed, is that men have been taught to pursue ideals that are… — Robert James Bidinotto Copy Share Image
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I was driven less by achievement than by trying to understand, in earnest: What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
When you love your enermies people says you are a good pretender however I say you are a good person who understand… — Simphiwe Dumisani Ntuli Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The “non-profit” institution neither supplies goods or services nor controls. Its “product” is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of… — Burke Strunsky Copy Share Image
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will be our delight, our… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“It is as if a man were asked, 'What is the use of a hammer?' and answered, 'To make hammers'; and when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we now need to see is that human life doesn't need to be rescued from a fall that didn't happen. Human… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image