In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
“Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
“Americans are as unlike any other white people in the world as it is possible to be. I do not think, for… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I deny not the course itself of events, which lies open to every one's inquiry and examination. I acknowledge, that, in the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us)… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones. And when memory failed and written records were… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There can be no final goal for human institutions; the best are those that most encourage progress towards others still better. Without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Art cannot be excused from following God’s law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are… — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Affect is perhaps the most difficult plane of human life to define and describe, not merely because it is a-signifying (and contemporary… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“And yet there’s other species even closer to zero. I know that. And I hope to God somebody else is worrying about… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
