Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
“highly in a subjective well-being questionnaire. So our medieval ancestors were happy because they found meaning to life in collective delusions about… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“This catastrophe brings to mind the Korean Air Lines plane shot down in 1983 by a Soviet military fighter, killing 269. President… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy -… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Today, the established social structures and values are beginning to crumble on a global scale. This is an indication of the deadlock… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory,… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Incredible how so many people have no sense of honor. How does this happen? This happens by thriving on how one appears… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“It was passages like these, where there is a clear mocking of literalist readings of Scripture, that had brought me back around… — Kalanithi Copy Share Image
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Christian ethics makes sense of human life from a moral perspective, presenting us with a vision of what it means to be… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In the party of Lincoln and Reagan and much of the donor class, the defense of human life is what they think… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to… — John Green Copy Share Image
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Habit formation is a very important aspect of human life. As we go on learning new things, we also simultaneously try to… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image