“How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
“No natural forces determine income, wealth, and the quality of human life. We make the decisions about who will prosper and who… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“A person with internalized shame believes he is inherently flawed, inferior and defective.Such a feeling is so painful that defending scripts (or… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“In the Tantrik View, there are two goals in human life: worldly success and spiritual liberation. The former consists of learning how… — Christopher D Wallis Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Simply judging the lives of others is one of the easiest things to do. When you actually stepped into one's shoes then… — Chandlrababu VS Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We will only understand the Torah if we recall that every other religion in the ancient world worshiped nature. That is where… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“...the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them, even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“The spiritual life and especially its expression in mystical experience, is not so much a matter of striving for heights of mystical… — Michael Downey Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine,… — Kyuzo Mifune Copy Share Image
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
“They were all intensely excited, and all overflowing with noisy expressions of their loyalty to the Law. Yet I felt an absolute… — H G Wells Copy Share Image
“The major impairments of ADD — the distractibility, the hyperactivity and the poor impulse control — reflect, each in its particular way,… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“I wanted love and goodness in this which is living death,' I said. 'It was impossible from the beginning, because you cannot… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It is my belief that the sentence "The end justifies the means"—that suppression, repression, and/or murder become somehow acceptable if committed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Books are supposed to give a helping hand to humanity’s progress, not to instruct humanity how to progress. Plato wrote his books… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“And so, Navani painted a prayer onto the stones themselves, sending her attendants for more ink. She paced off the size of… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“as might a dung beetle stripped of its exoskeleton. Having set out to change the world and rule it through mass murder… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I want you, Sancho, to think well and to have a good opinion of plays, and to be equally well-disposed toward those… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“There's not much to say about loneliness, for it's not a broad subject. Any child, alone in her room, can journey across… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“The bonds of dependence, far from loosening, have tightened again. But alongside force there is no longer authority, alongside obedience, no longer… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy,… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
