Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all,… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
To matter ... Is there any human will deeper than that? ... We don't want to live when we become convinced that… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
I've learned to become a progressive man because I have four women in my life. And their mother, who I'm not married… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul.… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home.… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
