I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life. — Rebecca Lee Crumpler Copy Share Image
Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of… — Maria von Trapp Copy Share Image
I hope maybe 'The Returned,' in some small way, can contribute to the argument of the poignancy of human life and make… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance… — Stanislaw Ulam 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
“Like many other men, Swann had a naturally lazy mind and lacked imagination. He knew perfectly well as a general truth that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe… — Dalai Lama 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
“That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think the U.S. is terrifying and it saddens me. You only have to look at the state of affairs in America.… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's… — Gerald Massey 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
“Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all.… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“When, on a sea voyage, the ship is brought to anchor, you go out to fetch water and gather a few roots… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I've come to read and hear many unlikely things about the times when people lived in freedom, i.e., the unorganized savage state.… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment. — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“There is only one label worth fighting for, nay, not fighting for, that is “human”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“By saying ‘this is wrong’, one is selling (wasting away) an invaluable human life!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting. — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image