A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for… — Christo Copy Share Image
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society.… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself,… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what… — Alice Crary Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain,… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence? — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to… — Michael J. Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to… — Margaret H'Doubler Copy Share Image
Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image