The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Human life holds the glorious potential of granting us immortality if we use it to redirect our love from the ephemeral to… — Chaitanya Charan Copy Share Image
“I flip a cognitive coin while reading Dr. Briggs' take on life, theology, science, and the conception of human life.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
“He marvelled at the assortment of human life spread out before him. The rich brushed shoulders with the poor, Irish men cracked… — Ken Magee Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the one named War has gone - at least for a while. But Famine, Pestilence… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“What is the object of human life? The enlightened conservative does not believe that the end or aim of life is competition;… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“To understand the grimoires within their own context, we must not look at them through the eyes of twenty-first century readers with… — Aaron Leitch Copy Share Image
“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“The slave protests against the condition of his state of slavery; the metaphysical rebel protests against the human condition in general. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I believe the stars can affect human lives, particularly by providing employment for thousands of astrologers. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Happiness keeps you sweet, sorrow keeps you human, life keeps you humble, success keeps you glowing, but only God keeps you going. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Time is in essence separation; separation produces pain; pain poesis; and poesis is what constitutes the unending stream of human life in… — Ananya Vajpeyi Copy Share Image
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are… — Harold Taylor Copy Share Image
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image