A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race. — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being. — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy. — George Packer Copy Share Image
In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human]… — Eric Pianka Copy Share Image
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability… — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“I had no idea what humans were capable of. I heard they were crafty, but how are they able to do such… — Patrick Jennings Copy Share Image
Wherever the deaf have received an education the method by which it is imparted is the burning question of the day with… — George Veditz Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The… — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination. — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it. — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a… — Keith Raniere Copy Share Image
There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image