Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field… Access to employment [shall… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
“Yes, we humans are more than merely biological creatures. We appreciate beauty, we struggle with ethical conflicts, and we strive to make… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
Included in human nature is an intense love. Even, because of the power of imagination, man fancies a sort of immortality in… — Bediuzzaman Copy Share Image
“All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our… — Merle A. Fossum Copy Share Image
As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious,… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Let us All make the whole WORLD a better place, pursue our dreams...bond LOVE to the spirit, embrace the young and old.… — Marialuisa Marino Copy Share Image
What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?...… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What can we say for and about this behavioral version, this bounded rationality version, of human thinking and problem solving? The first… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathematics. War is a part of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature:… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“There are obvious psychological stresses on a person in a group, but there may be even greater stresses on a person in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims,… — Michael Talbot Copy Share Image
Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
“And if there is any phase of human enjoyment, any part of life, any occupation, avocation, divertisement, pleasure or pain where the… — Samuel G. Blythe Copy Share Image
When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, every civilized human being, however high his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“We may also conceive of the evolution of humanity as a vast army, toiling slowly along its line of march in a… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“The egoic mind imagines a problem, and then it imagines a solution. When we get caught up in these thoughts, we feel… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Tell me something from Spanish literature," Schiele said. "I'll give you a line from my favorite novel. 'Los seres humanos no nacen… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often… — Plato Copy Share Image
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image