Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of 'diversity,' it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendship… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I do see that the world that we live in is collapsing to a certain extent, and civilization as we know it… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since,… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Some people feel that humans have a right to eat other animals but not to trash the earth. They may choose veganism… — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
There is something about humanity just being drained in many different ways, I think. There are so many things that drain us… — Mia Maestro Copy Share Image
Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to… — Matthew Crawford Copy Share Image
People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“For anyone who has never experienced or set any store by being close to an animal, it is perhaps difficult to understand… — Ninni Holmqvist Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written… — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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