Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food,… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“A balance between sustainable ecology and sustainable human life, on the one hand, and the unfettered drive for profit, on the other,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs, or anything else—God… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
“The reality of our life is in love, in solidarity,” said a tall, soft-eyed girl. “Love is the true condition of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
“The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When people are not in a prison cell they believe they are free and happy. That's not true. Because in Istanbul, the… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Although we don’t like to think about it, it seems that sorrow and suffering are inevitable in any human life, even a… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“Today everybody admits that something is wrong with the world, and the critics of Christianity are the very people who feel this… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.” — Theodor Storm Copy Share Image
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
“If the world is a Watch, as the Deists claim, then it is evidently two minutes behind. —James Beresford, The Miseries of… — Tad Tuleja Copy Share Image
To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest,… — W. A. Criswell Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“(Shoddiness is) the nature of human life. It takes an exertion to be indifferent to these things, but it's an exertion worth… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
