“It is a pity that the beautiful Christian metaphor “salvation” has come to be so hackneyed and therefore so despised. It has… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Hello everyone (Fools & Wise Ones)! Welcome to New Month, April! A month known for sunshine, spring vibes & it’s fool’s day.… — Rajesh Goyal Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The Reformation is one root of the idea of human freedom and autonomy as it is represented in modern democracy. However, while… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“-that unsleeping care which must have known that it could permit itself but one mistake; that alertness for measuring and weighing event… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The word corruption does not arouse the moral revulsion that it should. We think of it as more a nuisance than a… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear,… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
“And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world… — Priscilla Stuckey Copy Share Image
Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Rather than there being two distinct and unambiguous categories of constrained and unconstrained (or tragic and utopian) visions of human nature, I… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Moreover, nothing entitles us to assume that man has a nature or essence in the same sense as other things. In other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The advances of science and technology will bring us to the greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham: how… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Randy says, “You asked me earlier what is the highest and best purpose to which we could dedicate our lives. And the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“-Would you wish us to invest it for you? -No, I would like you to set up a trust for dumb animals.… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events; and what ideas will naturally be entertained of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,… — Ed Mayo Copy Share Image
“One age cannot bind itself, and thus conspire, to place a succeeding one in a condition whereby it would be impossible for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And I return to the coldness of this defying human nature, to the impertinence with which the losers of the Sacred Self… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Winston: I don't know - I don't care. Somehow you will fail. Something will defeat you. Life will defeat you. O'Brian: We… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What is it about human nature that when we are touched in a way that is life changing we want to share… — Bobbi Junod Copy Share Image
“You don't understand. Speaking, talking--language, that is--represents the most orderly, civilized, and rational expression of human nature. All this foul-mouthed cussing is… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“By such reflections and by the continuance in them of a divine nature, th qualities which we have described grew and increased… — Plato Copy Share Image
I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
![“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now]…” quote by Lynda Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/824/lynda-carter-15491_be-kind_i-ll-tell-you-why-wonder-woman-worked-or_2020056.png)
