The best aphorisms are… portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“People's imaginations have continued to work, right up to our own day; hence the incredible crop of fanciful allegations attributing to the… — Régine Pernoud Copy Share Image
“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“But then again, can't people just not fucking suck as human beings once in awhile? Is that too much to fucking ask?… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism? Poor human nature, what horrible… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
“I tell you that man has no more tormenting care than to find someone to whom he can hand over as quickly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Copy Share Image
“I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“It’ll turn me into a weapon,’ I say, my voice suddenly loud. ‘All you got to do is curl your hands into… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Just as television didn't put an end to radio or the movies (to say nothing of books), I don't think e-books will… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“I do not think men are good at all. I have seen enough to know that humans are a wicked race from… — Brondt Kamffer Copy Share Image
“One central characteristic of the Model T now generally forgotten is that it was the first car of consequence to put the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The dread of a permanently wicked human nature takes two forms. One is a practical fear: that social reform is a waste… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“Human nature tends to turn negative in difficult times. But the Scripture tells us to do just the opposite: “Count it all… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“what I want to show in my books and in my life is that you don't have to be like the miserable,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Love. Passion. Belief. Duty. The lines blur sometomes. There are ove fifteen recognised mjor religions on this planet. One religion believes something… — Gary Russell Copy Share Image
“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
Dawn Of The Dead is about how we're just a country cannibalizing itself, turning into one shopping mall, and everyone at the… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“As Shelley says in his famous poem, 'To a Skylark': 'We look before and after and pine for what is not Our… — Fr. John Ferreira Copy Share Image
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