Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples.… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.” “I get it, Swopes.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Theres a lot of muscles in your eyes even that you dont ever work, but little human traits like showing signs of… — Kristanna Loken Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And there is this fact of the twelve baskets: why twelve? What does it mean? Twelve is the number of the tribes… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations,… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
“Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church.… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse,… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And… — Bono Copy Share Image
Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the… — G. B. Caird Copy Share Image
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image