“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To understand the grimoires within their own context, we must not look at them through the eyes of twenty-first century readers with… — Aaron Leitch Copy Share Image
“What is the object of human life? The enlightened conservative does not believe that the end or aim of life is competition;… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“The slave protests against the condition of his state of slavery; the metaphysical rebel protests against the human condition in general. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“Most people live their entire lives with their clothes on, and even if they wanted to, couldn't take them off. Then there… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind -… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“The human life cycle no less than evolves around the box; from the open-topped box called a bassinet, to the pine box… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
“Bring the words and the objects together, though, and the new story is much more convincingly human. Life no longer stops dead… — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“about runaway trolleys!” This is an example of what Kant would call heteronomous determination —doing something for the sake of something else,… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“Anarchism, more than any other social theory, values human life above things. All Anarchists agree with Tolstoy in this fundamental truth: if… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“There appears no assurance that in the times of our own grandchildren the world will contain viable populations of wild African Lions,… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“A Christian has no right to separate his life into two realms... to say the Bible is good for Sunday, but this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and… — James Rachels Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It is in the nature of man that he is antagonistic toward the others of his sex. Each man sees in another… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Human life begins by crying! Once a baby is born, it cries out. Maybe it cries in joy! So, the simple equation… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the one named War has gone - at least for a while. But Famine, Pestilence… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
My uh, geek fan theory that I subscribe to, is the one that we are part of some sort of a conspiratorial… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“Pope Francis I, denouncing “an economy of exclusion,” has made inequality a centerpiece of his reign: Just as the commandment “Thou shalt… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“city builders and rebuilders (Jerusalem) and city-loving exiles (Babylon). In New Testament times, the people of God become city missionaries (indeed, New… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“It is recorded in the monastic rules that a monk once performed an abortion on a girl; the Buddha judged his action… — Soraj Hongladarom Copy Share Image
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, it's essential to take a moment to slow down and look at how far you've come. Like literally breathe in all… — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the… — James George Frazer Copy Share Image