When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings! — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life. — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of… — Mick Dodson Copy Share Image
Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful… — Steve Gleason Copy Share Image
Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something better-the price of progress-adds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates… — John Willys Copy Share Image
All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm… — Taissa Farmiga Copy Share Image
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that… — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image