Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another… — Mary Johnson Copy Share Image
Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible… To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal… — Bobby McLeod Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from… — Tobe Hooper Copy Share Image
There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?"… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him.… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor… — John Green Copy Share Image
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image