Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get… — Alexandra Potter Copy Share Image
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which… — Warder Clyde Allee Copy Share Image
Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed,… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets… — Mimi Pond Copy Share Image
Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and… — Walter Reisch Copy Share Image
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Wrangham cites several studies indicating that in fact humans don't do well on raw food: they can't maintain their body weight, and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy -… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image