“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Ten minutes ago, Frank though he was going to prison. Now he knows he’s not, and part of him thinks he should… — Ryan David Jahn Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If men were to colonize the moon or Mars—even with abundant supplies of oxygen, water, and food, as well as adequate protection… — Kurt Kaltreider Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is an immeasurably greater evil than the crime itself. Murder by legal process is immeasurably more dreadful than… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years,… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
Guys! While your'e BUSY ignoring your lady, another guy is TRYING really hard to get her attention. While your'e too busy for… — London Mond Copy Share Image
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
“The Olympian vice.--In defiance of that philosopher who as true Englishman tried to give any thinking person's laughter a bad reputation ('Laughter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“IN THE HANDS OF MAN He who creates a poison, also has the cure. He who creates a virus, also has the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name.… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“It’s just human nature – isn’t it? – to be more attracted to something that’s taboo. If someone tells you not to… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.… — Huineng Copy Share Image
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Hobbes took the madness of his age, considered it “normal,” and projected it back into prehistoric epochs of which he knew next… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Libertarians (like anarchists and Marxists) generally believe that human nature is good, though damaged by certain social institutions. Conservatives, on the contrary,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They… — John Denver Copy Share Image
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“Teach him to call it ‘real-life and don’t let him ask what he means by ‘real’. (...) Never having been human (...)… — Clive Staples Lewis Copy Share Image
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