...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out,… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I don't believe in ever putting a dog down for behavior issues, because that's just punishing the dog for something wrong that… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten. — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' --… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
The Ancient Romans did not regard acts of genius to emanate from within an individual - but rather saw it as a… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image