In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies,… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He… — Charles Templeton Copy Share Image
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping. — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Said by Colin the dragon: "It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image