One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today,… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us.… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely? — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Humans don’t make sense.” “If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven,… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions. — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
“[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after… — Tom Metzger Copy Share Image
Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image