That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Maana halisi ya falsafa ya 'Nitakuwa tayari kufungwa kwa ajili ya matatizo ya watu', au Falsafa ya Kufungwa, ni uvutano mkubwa uliopo… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
The most courageous, and pious act of a human is to be with another human, because we are like stars in the… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even… — Marina Endicott Copy Share Image
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their… — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because… — Lee Jong-wook Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions.… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach.… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
