“Although we typically take our cultural worldview for granted, it is actually a fragile human construction that people spend great energy creating,… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“The blaming of mothers for earning their living and neglecting their duties became a well-established principle. The fact that women had earned… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The historical problems with Luke are even more pronounced. For one thing, we have relatively good records for the reign of Caesar… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living eyes of a… — james agee Copy Share Image
“Too bad!' the feisty poet responded. 'Yes, too bad!' the stranger agreed, his eye flashing, and went on: 'But here is a… — Mikhail Bulgakov 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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, Jesus’s mission centered in the coming of God’s kingdom, the restoration of God’s rule over all creation and… — Craig G. Bartholomew Copy Share Image
“There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“When is a market free?" With regard to the first corollary identified above, freedom in Augustine's view is not simply the absence… — William T. Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, when it is your lot to have to endure something that is (or seems to you) worse than the ordinary lot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Surely you're not saying that the life of a human and the life of an animal are of the same value?' he… — David Michie Copy Share Image
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
“ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“In addition, the Greek division of human life into “mind,” “body,” “emotions,” “psyche,” and “spirit” underlies the modern Western view. The Semitic… — Neil Douglas-Klotz Copy Share Image
For others the mourning is over. Others would say that whilst one God has died - the God of ontotheology perhaps? -… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
“Obviously the most enduring way to make this commitment is through marriage. Yet because sexual liberals deny the differences between the sexes,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7 Beware of the pleasant view of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with them, betraying its elitism, sexism… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
![“[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.” quote by Iris Origo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0c4/iris-origo-37752_biographies_on-writing-biography-every-human-life-is_778442.jpg)
