“The scientists call it human nature; which is just a fancy term for the God-given flaws we have no intention of giving… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow,… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe,… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.~Anuj… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“Now imagine the opposite: a world where humans are free to roam in nature, create with their hands, and connect with their… — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm ‒ their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“this is the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we… — John Green Copy Share Image
The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and… — Isabella Blow Copy Share Image
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“But isn’t that strange and wonderful unpredictability part of humanity? Aren’t all of our differences what already make us a great nation?” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Humans simply aren’t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion.… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white,… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage to love the beauty… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“isn't there some philosophy about how it's the arts that separate humans from animals? Really? I thought it was not eating our… — Claire Zorn Copy Share Image
