What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There is no reason at all to think that creatures with very different purposes and concerns would arrive at the scientific image,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life.… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
And this is the mission of the church--not civilization, but salvation--not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It turns out that creativity isn’t some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few—it’s a natural part of human thinking… — Tom Kelley Copy Share Image
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If they are not an advanced race from the future, are we dealing instead with a parallel universe, another dimension where there… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity;… — James Agee Copy Share Image
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation… — Peter Calthorpe Copy Share Image
Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth,… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image