Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings! — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time… — Leonard Hayflick Copy Share Image
Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently...… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Casals says music fills him with the wonder of life and the 'incredible marvel' of being a human. Ives says it expands… — Richard Riley Copy Share Image
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salivations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image