Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don’t you think?” — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Beliefs create behaviors, and the dysfunctional behaviors of the human race, observable everywhere every day, are the product of our non-workable beliefs.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image