The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Know that originally none of us are from Earth. We all have natural origins off the planet. We are having human experience,… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using… — Marilu Henner Copy Share Image
Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
If the human body is balanced in ph and nutrients it is not susceptible to disease. — Royal Rife Copy Share Image
May the deepest spiritual values of the Filipino people continue to find expression in your efforts to provide your fellow citizens with… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the… — Richard Asher Copy Share Image
Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale.… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence. — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
“It’s not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it’s the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say,… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
