The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“And perhaps the sexes are more closely related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Directly overhead the Milky Way was as distinct as a highway across the sky. The constellations shown brilliantly, except the north, where… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Love for others and respect for their rights and their human dignity, irrespective of who or what they are, no matter what… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. Each business and industry has to… — Harry Amos Bullis Copy Share Image
“You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the… — Herculine Barbin Copy Share Image
Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
“There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now this is a law that has evolved… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
“Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through nature, one could also find in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead, is a human one. It would be wonderful… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Self-published media are really critical. It's so heartwarming that people are still doing it in this digital age. It's just really moving… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image