“In this tiny interval of the twenty-first century, we, the human species, will either learn to become a life-enhancing element within the… — Bill Plotkin Copy Share Image
“Every human being needs a set of norms and rules, traditions and customs, transmitted from the older to the younger; without those… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The greatest injustice I had ever seen humans perpetrate against themselves was unwholesome as I was yet to come to terms with… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
“What would the Space serve humanity if our home is shaking in its foundation, built and maintained throughout history by ancestors adamant… — Claudys Kantara Copy Share Image
The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with… — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
“I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Along with everything else, I know that there is a beauty in mankind. It is a beauty that no ugliness, no violence,… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The public interest has shifted from the nature of man to the nature of nature and to the prospects of domination its… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could… — Thomas Hylland Eriksen Copy Share Image
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by… — Ernest Starling Copy Share Image
To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity;… — George Stanley Copy Share Image
“What is happening in Egypt now, and in the countries of the Arab Spring, confirms a global phenomenon that the human became… — Mohamed Addakhakhny Copy Share Image
“Living the human values allows us to more fully understand the underlying reasons for someone’s behaviour and why that person is acting… — Simon Robinson Copy Share Image
I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Because it is such a powerful force in the world today, the Western Judeo-Christian tradition is often accepted as the arbiter of… — Walter L. Williams Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“that each ejaculation contains several billion sperm cells –or roughly the same number as there are people in the world– which means… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The thing can never be separated from someone who perceives it; nor can it ever actually be in itself because its articulations… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Actually, the eloquence of the wilderness is not a pattern for human eloquence. There is no hardier fool than whoever shouts, "The… — Renny Russell Copy Share Image
“The power of one man doesn't amount to much. But, however little strength I'm capable of... I'll do everything humanly possible to… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“The mass hallucination of the twentieth century is this: that all these national governments, which each year kill or threaten way more… — Tyler Mcmahon Copy Share Image
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The human face is the organic seat of beauty… It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
“Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Sadly but, perhaps, not altogether unexpectedly this society has had very limited success in achieving what is supposed to be the justification… — Charles Le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image