“We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to… — Cyril Connolly 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
All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and… — James Rachels Copy Share Image
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life. — Euripides 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
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.” — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Now, life, ordinary, jolly, heathen, human life, is simply chockful of these dead words and meaningless ceremonies. You will not escape from… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It was passages like these, where there is a clear mocking of literalist readings of Scripture, that had brought me back around… — Kalanithi 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
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew? — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the prevalence of abortion among Protestant women (versus mostly immigrant Catholics) is widely considered by historians to be one of the… — Jonathan Dudley Copy Share Image