We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the… — Alfred Billings Street Copy Share Image
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Reality: "If we can sue the gun manufacturers for human actions, does this mean we can sue the car manufacturers for being… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence. — Jeremy Siegel Copy Share Image
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Most security failings happen because of human actions that are not envisaged when designing systems. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void… The judgment of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of… — Norbert Lynton Copy Share Image
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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