The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses,… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It makes no difference to me whether I shoot you or you fall to your death.” “It does make a difference,” I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it --… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty. — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So,… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
“My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call “belief”) play a poor, secondary role in human decisions;… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds.… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
To be completely featured as human. First of all, man must live with the truth. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
I remember one guy saying, "You're the only human out of all of them," and feeling a little concerned that somehow that… — Allison Silverman Copy Share Image
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra… — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic resources: Seeds. So nothing could… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
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