Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea. — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people. — Ron Carter Copy Share Image
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself, — Augustus Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon Copy Share Image
I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human.… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential — William M. Gray Copy Share Image
One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On… — Erlend Loe Copy Share Image
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image