Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human… — Joe Murray Copy Share Image
The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery. — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this… — Will Self Copy Share Image
How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions,… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights. — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image