“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
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
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
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
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
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
Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
“This is the breaking point in a human life, right here. This is waking up on an operating table to find aliens… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“The main reason for moral inconsistencies and betrayals, Ayn Rand believed, is that men have been taught to pursue ideals that are… — Robert James Bidinotto Copy Share Image
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Encounters taking the form of challenge-and-response are the most illuminating kind of events a for student of human affairs if he believes,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied,… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“The woman he had loved most (he was thirty at the time) would tell him (he was nearly in despair when he… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image
“Does evil come from inside ,from the dark depths of the human soul or does it come from outside ,from the objective… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that the deepest concerns of the faithful, whether moderate or extreme, are trivial or misguided. There is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“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
“What makes for a livable world is no idle question. It is not merely a question for philosophers. It is posed in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's… — Carl Jung 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
“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
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every… — Joseph Bernardin Copy Share Image
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“I’d say that it’s one short step from ‘Wizards first’ to ‘Purebloods first,’ and then to ‘Death Eaters,’” replied Kingsley. “We’re all… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The followers of Jesus will begin to demonstrate a new set of horizons for human life to their neighbors and even to… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“for I wish rather, in this lecture at least, to dwell on the effect that decorative art has on human life -… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
