By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the… — Charles Taze Russell Copy Share Image
In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must… — William Jay Youmans Copy Share Image
IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
“He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image