All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“So everybody lives the way they're told to. The way they have to. Everybody most of the time. Not ever all the… — Helen Potrebenko Copy Share Image
To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew…Mars… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human… — Brian Bowers Copy Share Image
“Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
BEHIND THIS MASK IV ALWAYS KNOWN WHO I AM IM NOT FRONTIN PLAYIN OR TELLIN LIES THE LORD BLESSED ME WITH NOTHING… — D Pryde Copy Share Image
“The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There’s an ethics to… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There seems to be no limit to the lies that honest but stupid disciples will tell for the glory of their master… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ is a Man come to save men. In Him the divine nature is married to our human nature, and wherever… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I've lived almost, like, four completely different lives. (Stripping) was just one section - one little small section, if that - but… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The only thing you should be trying to please in this world is god, because: Humans are dishonest Humans are evil Humans… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Had the world been different, in my opinion, without mountains and oceans, plains and seas, deserts and forests, and consisted of something… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“[V]ictimism is an ideology of the ego. But perhaps ideology is too strong a term; victimism can be seen as a generalized… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“It's basic human nature. We feel insecure. Our insecure thoughts convince us to build a wall around us so that no one… — Aparajita Yadav Copy Share Image
“While it is absurd to blame Marx for something he did not foresee and certainly would have condemned if he had foreseen… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The Reformation is one root of the idea of human freedom and autonomy as it is represented in modern democracy. However, while… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“-that unsleeping care which must have known that it could permit itself but one mistake; that alertness for measuring and weighing event… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear,… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image