“It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent… — Victor Del Arbol Copy Share Image
“I'm learning it's human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day,… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all… — Samuel B. Pettengill Copy Share Image
It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If the process fails at any point, the idea in question lacks cognitive content. When carried through successfully, however, it yields a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Now she knew the haven she had sought in dreams, the place of warm safety which had always been hidden from her… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Suddenly Dallington burst into speech. 'Listen, Lenox - I want to apologize...' Lenox waved a dismissive hand. 'You're young,' he said. 'There… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Good, evil, these are human concepts, ways people have for understanding what it means to be alive,” Nick said. “Before people came… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“In the GDR people were required to acknowledge an assortment of fictions as fact. Some of these fictions were fundamental, such as… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "spread the word,"… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“If the independent, isolated nuclear family unit is, in fact, the structure into which human beings most naturally configure themselves, why do… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Buffaloes dont make parties to revolutionize the world, to change buffaloes into super-buffaloes, to make buffaloes religious, virtuous. No animal is concerned… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“Neuro-nonsense occurs when people take on board the supposed discoveries of neuroscience – all these brain images that tell us, for instance,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive. And though it may be… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“The idea that we were designed by our past was the principal insight of Charles Darwin. He was the first to realize… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“To discover that the Universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image