Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization... …Books are humanity in print. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
“Value time and convert it into greatness by investing it into learning and researching all that you can.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The vastness of possibilities in space reminded me that while my life felt important, it was tiny in the scheme of things.… — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“Not having the slightest abhorrence towards any nimit (instrumental doer) is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Quincy [Jones] is one of the greatest world figures, of all-time. I mean he's up there with Muhammad Ali, as far as… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
“In the afterglow of the Big Bang, humans spread in waves across the universe, sprawling and brawling and breeding and dying and… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image