“Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Citizenship is the name of a reciprocal relationship between an individual and a sheltering polity. When there was no state, no one… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is no regard for human lives, or local national interests. It is because the West, despite its hypocritical rhetoric (political correctness)… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for good: I… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I'm glad you brought it up. I wasn't sure how to approach you about it, but this makes it easier for both… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
“Desert which is immense and from above light brown or red vast rivulets of sand with no human life. As the only… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“This is not (as you have charged) to paint religion with a broad brush. I am very quick to distinguish gradations of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The truth is that we're drowning in busywork, nonproductive work, everything from "creative" banking and insurance bureaucracies to the pointless shuffling of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Human life was rarely shapely, only intermittently meaningful, its clumsiness the inevitable consequence of the victory of content over form, of what… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Life is an act of endless creativity. With all its simmering tragedy and occasional catastrophe, a human life is an amazing thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life. — John Boehner Copy Share Image
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