“For a considerable portion of humanity today, it is possible and indeed likely that one's neighbor, one's colleague, or one's employer will… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don't know why. It's beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Trust and condemnation work hand in hand for both work on the concept of experience, of knowing it, observing it, realizing it,… — Maitreya Rudrabhayananda Copy Share Image
“Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“His moral courage led him to question a great wrong and refuse, backed by his men, to take part in a horrific… — Tom Bensing Copy Share Image
“There’s something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot…It’s significant…Because somebody has to take them in…And… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of 'diversity,' it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendship… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“Soon the situation unraveled, and different groups who had taken part in the First Storm accused one another of betrayal. They were… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
“Christianity will not be content to be an evolution within the total category of human nature; an engagement such as that is… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Machiavelli stresses that it's better as a leader to be feared than to be loved. Ideally you would be both loved and… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“In North Korea a person has two lives, natural and political. But once you get sent to a prison camp your political… — Bradley K. Martin Copy Share Image
“It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“I suppose people who graduate from very selective and expensive colleges, and receive immense reinforcement from colleagues who preceded them there, develop… — James Kunstler Copy Share Image
Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“The general premiss of … belief is: man of himself can know nothing of God; all his knowledge is merely vain, earthly,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“As a result of the secularization of consciousness that has taken place on a global scale, man’s heritage from the Christianity he… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“We're humans, not machines. We have bad days. We have mental difficulties. We are inspired, yet we fail. We are not linear.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands… — Robert Buettner Copy Share Image
Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
People will always believe what they want to believe, about you. This is due to the fact that people wish to create… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“There was colour everywhere you looked. Colour and beauty and she understood how desperately Lockie would have missed his home. Under the… — Nicole Trope Copy Share Image
“I used to think freedom was freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience. But freedom is the whole life… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive”… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“It is worth while to point out the differing characters of a system and a method, because parents let themselves be run… — Charlotte M. Mason Copy Share Image
It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
“MAY 17 LET GOD TAKE CONTROL Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.… — Alan Robertson Copy Share Image
“I believe this movement will prevail. I don’t mean it will defeat, conquer, or create harm to someone else. Quite the opposite.… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image