If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered,… — Xun Kuang Copy Share Image
In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“We set rules in times when they make sense. Then the times change but the rules stay: they don't make sense anymore,… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This perpetual success of war and failure of peace is then said to be “the human condition”—but it is only the condition… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“This is how I see humanity. When enemies come to your country, destroy the countryside and your village, kill your countrymen, your… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“A man abandoned by himself on a desert island would adorn neither his hut nor his person; nor would he seek for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
“A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“social surrogacy hypothesis,” which holds that humans can use technologies, like television, to feel a sense of belonging that they're lacking in… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The seminary of depths of pain has taught us this, What is the value of a human being and what constitutes humanity?… — Mohd Aariff Khan Copy Share Image
I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
... this idea, that humans are essentially weak creatures, is actually deeply woven into a lot of the ways in which humans… — Daniel Lieberman Copy Share Image
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“You get the picture. The marvelous thing about the human ego is that each one is slightly different. Deep inside you, there’s… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for… — Shirley Hufstedler Copy Share Image
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“When monks deny the existence of the I, they are not denying the existence of humanity or of man in general; but… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
