The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general -… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had… — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for… — Svante Paabo Copy Share Image
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image