Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
You could have these crazy Internet valuations in the late 1990s, but they prove themselves out in the market. The next day… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence,… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
I have fought the establishment, run primaries, my entire career. I think that for Planned Parenthood or NARAL or the Human Rights… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to… — Tehmina Durrani Copy Share Image
I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life;… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city,… — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities.… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life;… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
