“From an evolutionary perspective, the closest thing we have to a human essence is our DNA, and the DNA molecule is the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The crucial importance of human expectations has far-reaching implications for understanding the history of happiness. If happiness depended only on objective conditions… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us)… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The most courageous, and pious act of a human is to be with another human, because we are like stars in the… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
“Only in the boundaries of a loving Creator can humanity be free. Is a fish out of the water free? Is a… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“It’s something useless, sudden, violent; something that costs a life; red, blue, purple; a spirit; a splash … free from taint, dependence,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation—the degree to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human. When we want… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“When viewed at the next quantum level of perspective, from which the Earth is seen as an organism and humans are seen… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The law of our being is Love of Life, and its interests and adornments; love of the world in which our lot… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“Each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is… — Dean R. Koontz Copy Share Image
“We assume that a large brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities and complex social structures are huge advantages. Only in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A butterfly stands in a puddle of melting sorbet, tasting the essence of strawberry with her feet. An ant walks past, carrying… — Pete Beebe Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The drama of AIDS threatens not just some nations or societies, but the whole of humanity. It knows no frontiers of geography,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“For no one knows what lies under the sands of the world's great deserts. No one knows how many times poor Earth… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“We humans are so defenceless compared to the rest of the natural world, he thought to himself. We have no shell to… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of mankind, human needs and desires have combined to produced ideas and inventions that make life easier and more… — Sid Meier's Civilization IV Civilopedia Copy Share Image
“The end toward which mankind is inexorably developing by the constant overcoming of internal antagonisms is not the enjoyment, ownership, or use… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“Though beauty is autonomous, there seem to be occasions when human presence can become congruent with her will. In creative work no… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The best and noblest parts of man depend precious little on culture, education, and whatever else it is called. One can never… — Wilhelm Von Humboldt Copy Share Image
