“Human life, Borges said, is a cascade of possible directions, and we take only one, or we perceive that we take only… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Dr. Frankl discovered that even under the most inhumane of conditions, one can live a life of purpose and meaning. But for… — John Chaffee Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
“So, I think that when we become civilized, great corporations will make provision for men who have given their lives to their… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
“It also explains why the gospel of the kingdom has such transforming power in human life. For that gospel opens the kingdom… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“It is not my methodology to engage too much with critics for many reasons: - I honestly believe that my ego is… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
“Christopher Columbus and his brothers were no different from many of the Spanish adventurers of the time. They were a roughhewn lot,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Whatever may be the cause of this crisis, it is certain that it is a spiritual one, since it represents the failure… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But you do just the opposite. You strengthen your thought-waves. You are seized by worthless thoughts and you co-operate with them. You… — Osho Copy Share Image
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Those who’ve left their bootprints in the trenches are those who value human life most. They get unwanted glimpses into the savage… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“The highest and most fruitful form of human freedom is found in accepting, even more than in dominating. We show the greatness… — Jacques Philippe Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Aristotle very famously said in his Politics I.V.8 that some people are born to be slaves. He meant that some people are… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“She gave a little sob deep in her throat. 'Call it a prophecy, call it a prediction, call it fate - call… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Arthur could not but be sensible, that not long since all this would have made him perfectly happy; but the last months… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“Gordon MacDonald once wrote about how what he called the “sinkhole syndrome” happens in a human life. It may be triggered by… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Gun buyback programs have to rank at the top of the list of mindless feel-good attempts to address a serious problem in… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being,… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
“I'm reading a book that actually scares me. It is not a form of fear that is embodied in some irrational phobia… — Aliaa El-Nashar Copy Share Image
There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
“I slipped in and out of consciousness as time stretched and flowed around me. Dreams and reality blurred, but I liked the… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“In our resistance to the business mentality, we are still Spanish, stubbornly Spanish. Also, we have not stopped being Catholic, nor have… — Juan José Arévalo Copy Share Image
“Food has become a cause of disease rather than a guardian of health in the modern world. Once regarded as the central… — Daniel P. Reid Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We want to get behind the beauty, but it is only a surface. It is like a mirror that reflects to us… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
