“Human nature is human nature. We subject ourselves to things we know we might not be able to endure. We do it… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“As social beings, it is in our relationships that we have most opportunity to flourish. Indeed, the Stoics argued that our own… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
“We humans do thousand and one thing to impress others and show to the world that we are smart and wise but… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
In the world today, we humans have become more self-absorbed, more tribal and tenacious in holding on to our narrow agendas; we… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“proverb from the Sanskrit Vedic Scriptures of around 1500 bce: “Upon this handful of soil our survival depends. Husband it and it… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind - that as a species… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
“The bourgeois period of history has to create the material basis of the new world — on the one hand universal intercourse… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the… — Thomas Reed Copy Share Image
“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization,… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Handcrafted Humanity Sonnet 7 Give, give and give again, To give without reserve is living. Fall, fall and fall again, To fall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We do not really know what draws a human being out into the world. Is it curiosity? A hunger for experience? An… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
“Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives,… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“Humans are mysterious creatures. There comes a time when we can clearly understand even things that we can't see. It's the same… — Sakura Tsukuba Copy Share Image
“Having this, we want that. Owning some, we want more. Standing here, we wish to be there. If it's impossible, we struggle… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s familiarity with human-caused extinction is also clear from On the Origin of Species. In one of the many passages in which… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
“... humans are simply zombie hosts obediently disseminating their seeds, tubers, sparks, and gasses around the globe. In the end, the geologic… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“Buddha-nature or real self, being the seat of love and the nucleus of sincerity, forms the warp and woof of all moral… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes… — A. D. Gordon Copy Share Image
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Today’s human activity isn’t exterminating mammoths through centuries of overhunting. Some humans are currently killing everything, from megafauna to microbiota, at speeds… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that… — Werner J. A. Dahm Copy Share Image
“What is the essence of human sexuality and how did it get to be that way? In the following pages, we’ll explain… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the… — Brad Watson Copy Share Image
If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What is demanded by God today is not a message to a particular people alone, a message is demanded for the whole… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“We picture the world as thick with conquering and elate humanity, but here, with the bugles of the tempest peeling, it was… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“We are accelerating and extending our minds through our computers and algorithms, through our medical prowess and our accumulated knowledge. These minds… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
“Anthropologist Donald Symons is as amazed as we are at frequent attempts to argue that monogamous gibbons could serve as viable models… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
![“It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people] could all see themselves as they really are I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which…” quote by Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/615/thomas-merton-231_big-problem_it-is-a-glorious-destiny-to-be-a-member_1795511.jpg)
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