“What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow?” — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
“But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitable of… — William Forster Lloyd Copy Share Image
“It is my rule never to take a side in any part in the quarrels of others, nor to inquire into them.… — Thomas Jeffeson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“As Christians we face two tasks in our evangelism: saving the soul and saving the mind, that is to say, not only… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“In the human life time is but an instant, and the substance of it a flux, and the perception dull, and the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth… He whose desires… — Plato Copy Share Image
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In fact this ultimate degree of Darwinian faith, which blinds the faithful to even the most obvious facts of human life, is… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“The fact is that nothing but human energy working productively can produce any of the necessities of human life, any human living… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever… — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
Learning to find and create your special place wherever you go, ensures you've experienced the great beauty of human life. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Revealing aspects of the mystery of being human is life's inexhaustible research. Through the adventures of art, we find the meaning of… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
“There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.” — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Farther down the road, a hatchback was wrapped around a lamppost, a hanging basket embedded in its windshield. In the other direction… — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy… — William Jay Gaynor Copy Share Image
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of… — Wellington Mara Copy Share Image
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
