'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different… — Raymond B. Fosdick Copy Share Image
Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth,… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent… — Sunderlal Bahuguna Copy Share Image
We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
I turned my head to the sky, to the sun, to the stars, and put a little piece of my love in… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can… — John Guare Copy Share Image
...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A… — Jeff Greenfield 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
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that… — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The final end of abortion in America will come when every human being begins to appreciate his own life as a gift… — Judie Brown Copy Share Image
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image