“Another war is always coming Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human… — Mitchell David Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I think it's good to have your own selfish interests, whether it's liking chocolate ice cream or wanting a new car. It's… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Death is a fascinating thing. The human mind continually returns and returns to death, to mortality, immortality, damnation, salvation. Some fear death,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“One of the most enjoyable parts of being a writer is being able to take the darker side of human nature and… — Dawn Goodwin Copy Share Image
“He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student… — Georg Buhler Copy Share Image
“Sacraments derive their origin from, and owe their institution to, Christ, not only as God, but also as man. He is the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“The stories we hear daily tell us that we are not good enough to rise to our environmental moment. For a long… — Alice Irene Whittaker Copy Share Image
“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“It will not be believed that such a force as Great Britain has employed in this country could be baffled in their… — John Ripin Miller Copy Share Image
“many people who suffer difficult losses exhibit a natural resilience. They hurt deeply, but the hurt passes, and relatively soon after the… — George A. Bonanno Copy Share Image
“This preoccupation with the classics was the happiest thing that could have befallen me. It gave me a standard of values. To… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“universe.” Tan’elKoth’s tone remained dry and precise, but his face grew ever more grim. “Chambaraya is, one might say, a smaller knot… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We… — Gerald of Wales Copy Share Image
“The trouble with mimetic fiction isn’t that you can tell what’s going to happen (I defy anyone to guess what’s going to… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“to emigrate, God’s people should remember the importance of assembling together with other believers. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as… — John Price Copy Share Image
“We have always had war," Terry explained. ... "It is human nature." "Human?" asked Ellador. ………. "Are some of the soldiers women?"… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
“In company with all of these achievements, and yet after them all, God fulfilled for our sake the truly new mystery of… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will… — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Copy Share Image
“But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
There is no need to invent an ego that is separate from the divine if our basic human nature is trusted. If… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“But, on the other hand, the study of music is one of the best ways to learn about human nature. This is… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the natural world is not short of people who believe that rattling off Latin names incessantly makes them appear clever, whereas… — Tristan Gooley Copy Share Image
Day by day, life goes on and on. Every split of seconds your heart beats, beats! for another day or for another… — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image