As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of… — Noel Carroll Copy Share Image
Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't… — Omar Ahmad Copy Share Image
It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him. — Faina Ranevskaya Copy Share Image
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
When Allah created the horse, he said to the wind, I will that a creature proceed from thee. Condense thyself.And the wind… — Marguerite Henry Copy Share Image
No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
With a strange half-mocking tone, Aislinn said, "It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The animal creation shall again gladden a new Paradise as they did when Adam and Eve called them by name, and carressed… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches… — Hsuan Hua Copy Share Image
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute. — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence... Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions? Imagine a magician… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
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