“It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to the aspects of existence that we cannot explain… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often,… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The whole world has been asking for the same these thousands of years. There is, again, the universal dissatisfaction. We make an… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Along with many other professionals, I’ve come to the conclusion that shame is much more likely to lead to destructive and hurtful… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“In the land of Uz, there lived a man, righteous and God-fearing, and he had great wealth, so many camels, so many… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We would do well, as Orwell counselled, to see the traces of the dystopian around us, to find the ends of those… — Darran Anderson Copy Share Image
Turning to the crimson pavilion, beneath the filters of its carved lattices, illumination baffles sleep. Why does the moon bear grudge as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“He the Word that He might be glorified; the Word remaining quiescent, that He might be capable of being tempted, dishonoured, crucified,… — The Church Fathers 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
“No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some… — Phillip DePoy Copy Share Image
“What if many listeners hold a profoundly different understanding of the concepts of God, truth, right and wrong, freedom, virtue, and sin?… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
What the left have done is screw up everybody's human nature where the opposite sex is concerned. Now nobody knows who they're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, I see the Goddess as incorporating the full spectrum of existence, not just what we call ‘the feminine.’ The latter is… — Hallie Iglehart Auste Copy Share Image
Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But I'm learning it's human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“a) Theologians generally* agree that in itself (in actu primo) the Mass, as a sacrifice of impetration and pro pitiation, has infinite… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone,… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“But does it really help if a person doesn't realize what he lacks, or, if he does, he insists that he doesn't… — Nikolai Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
“On various occasions, especially in trying to think of western American history in the context of the worldwide history of colonialism, it… — Patricia Nelson Limerick Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“The aristocratic interiority is centered on the higher mind, the mens, the ajna chakra, the seat of intellect and intuition that commands… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“We always wonder, when we see two people together, particularly when they're actually married, how these two people could have arrived at… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image