“The idea that we were designed by our past was the principal insight of Charles Darwin. He was the first to realize… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Tarkovsky was right. The responsibility of the artist is to stir people’s hearts and minds toward loving others: to find the light… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
“If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them--that so often and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am plac'd in my philosophy, and fancy myself some… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well.… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
“Outside, on the other side of a black iron grill, was another crowd, just as anxious, just as sweaty and frightened. These… — Duong Thu Huong Copy Share Image
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and… — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
“Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look,… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Next day Tarrou set to work and enrolled a first team of workers, soon to be followed by many others. However, it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The Lord’s Prayer is found in Matthew 6. In verse 12 Jesus says, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Maud considered. She said, 'In every age, there must be truths people can't fight - whether or not they want to, whether… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
“Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-binding" being. This theory… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“Blonde hair and black hair are the two poles of human nature. Black hair signifies virility, courage, frankness, activity, whereas blonde hair… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
