The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history.… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually… — Richard Bangs Copy Share Image
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the… — Nick Dear Copy Share Image
...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be all right. If I succeed in that, the… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of… — William James Copy Share Image
We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans… — Wally Hickel Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this… — Will Self Copy Share Image
How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions,… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
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