“Any experiment that can benefit by one hairsbreadth any single human life is a thousand times worth trying.” — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
“And it was the part of a wise man to forget inevitable calamities of human life in the enjoyment of the fleeting… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My favorite thing about making movies is that it's the only area of human life that I've ever discovered where I can… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
“And above it all the butterfly effect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
“When a person believes that a God is truly concerned about the well-being of life on earth, and especially of human life,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“A Christian has no right to separate his life into two realms... to say the Bible is good for Sunday, but this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie 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
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It is in the nature of man that he is antagonistic toward the others of his sex. Each man sees in another… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose… — Virginia Williams Copy Share Image
However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“La vie humaine est limitée, mais je voudrais vivre éternellement – Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.… — Richard T. Kelly Copy Share Image
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third… — Henry James Copy Share Image
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
