Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a… — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
We are killing our host the planet Earth… I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness,… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing… — Claude Lanzmann Copy Share Image
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings… — Ben Quilty Copy Share Image
As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would… — Aileen Wuornos Copy Share Image
We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image