Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“Although we typically take our cultural worldview for granted, it is actually a fragile human construction that people spend great energy creating,… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since,… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with them, betraying its elitism, sexism… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“It is hardly surprising that the harbinger of God's love has been accused of hatred of the human race. Who has a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“When is a market free?" With regard to the first corollary identified above, freedom in Augustine's view is not simply the absence… — William T. Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
“Obviously the most enduring way to make this commitment is through marriage. Yet because sexual liberals deny the differences between the sexes,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Christian ethics makes sense of human life from a moral perspective, presenting us with a vision of what it means to be… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the party of Lincoln and Reagan and much of the donor class, the defense of human life is what they think… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Surely you're not saying that the life of a human and the life of an animal are of the same value?' he… — David Michie Copy Share Image
“ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“In addition, the Greek division of human life into “mind,” “body,” “emotions,” “psyche,” and “spirit” underlies the modern Western view. The Semitic… — Neil Douglas-Klotz Copy Share Image
For others the mourning is over. Others would say that whilst one God has died - the God of ontotheology perhaps? -… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
“The blaming of mothers for earning their living and neglecting their duties became a well-established principle. The fact that women had earned… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
