“Aristophanes says we were all four-legged creatures to start, some the same sex, but most half man and half woman. Zeus was… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“As the physicist Stephen Hawking put it, humans are ‘just a chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet that’s in… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“The actions aligned with the insight of interbeing reinforce the notion that we are all connected. They integrate, not separate. They are… — Juan Pablo Quiñonez Copy Share Image
“If the people of Old Earth, our ancestors and their descendants today who remain, could keep building, could keep trying, how can… — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
“In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Thank you for inviting me here today " I said my voice sounding nothing like me. "I'm here to testify about things… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Most of us have been deeply shaped by the false notion that in order for people to behave better they need to… — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Copy Share Image
When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
“Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the… — Cole J. Davis Copy Share Image
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Though many of my arguments will be coolly analytical — that an acknowledgment of human nature does not, logically speaking, imply the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
“The truth is that a better society will only arise through the evolution of the individual. This is because society is made… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
“i was accused of being against civilization, against science, against humanity. naturally, i was flattered and at the same time surprised, hurt,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Humanity can only improve as people improve. When you have improved your life, you can inspire those around you to want to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Are spirits so involved in men's lives? Marley asked. Mankind is inolved in men's lives. We only help them know how. ...Jacob,… — R. William Bennett Copy Share Image
“The goodness of things in the cosmos is not rooted most basically in human freedom or intelligence, and thus in human spirit,… — David L. Schindler Copy Share Image
All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“humans were happiest, not during lengthy periods of leisure, but when they were growing as people. When they were achieving. When they… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind.… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Protect the environment? Prevent animals from extinction? Bullshit! Why don't you just admit it! Humans shouldn't always be exploiting other creatures and… — Hitoshi Iwaaki Copy Share Image
“Before love, before loss, before we ever yearn to be something we are not, we are bodies breathing in space—-“turbulent, fleshy, sensual,”… — Amy Ellis Nutt Copy Share Image
“I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“But what a universe, anyhow! No use blaming human-beings for what they were. Everything was made so that it had to torture… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“humans,’ Zoltan Chivay said grimly. ‘Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The collective intelligence of the humanity is the sole result of human inquiry. It is through reason and the exercise of a… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're faced with creation, you're faced with something very mysterious and very mystical, whether it's looking at the ocean or being alone… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the… — Nancy Kline Copy Share Image
But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
