Why are we so concerned about whether other animals are like human beings or not? Because we are worried about whether we… — Sydney M. Lamb Copy Share Image
Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
"Heaven" refers to the realm that is the interior part of a human being, and that the "divine self" is none other… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Take all the Syrians, for example. They are where they need to be. They don't need saving. They are having their experiences… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image