It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate. — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in… — Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image
The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image