If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“For humans-trapped in biology-there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“They wept for humanity, those two, not for themselves. They could not bear that this should be the end. Ere silence was… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated… — Mencius Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity.… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
“All day, I watch humans scurry from store to store. They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be,… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“If you really think about it, humans must look really strange to animals. We have more than one way of communicating, we're… — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The solution to global conflicts cannot be found in arms buildups that are meant to serve as deterrents. Neither can it be… — Vicente Hao Chin Copy Share Image
“Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. Because it is so… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Maybe what we are faced with in our own day is a similar challenge: to focus not on the question of which… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In the ferment of our civil societies, from which the guardian angels seem to depart, we see many every moment sliding at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith.… — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else.… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
“We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our… — Valerie Tarico Copy Share Image
And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“It is in the nature of man that he is antagonistic toward the others of his sex. Each man sees in another… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
But the humans weren't what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summer's touch.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“For not the revelation of God, but the expounders of that revelation, are responsible for the diversities of Christendom: the fault rests… — G.H. Pember Copy Share Image
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wild beast, which lives in man and does not… — Peter Maass Copy Share Image
We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“It is at those times that we can measure ourselves and confront a most startling moment. Life may not be what we… — Harold Mosak Copy Share Image
Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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