As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness,… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Excellence in life seems to me to be the way in which each human being makes the most of the adventure of… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors.… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
What the Indians are saying is that they are recognizing the right of wilderness to be wilderness. Wilderness is not an extension… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together… — Radhika Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel… — Kenji Mizoguchi Copy Share Image
The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable-until I realized it wasn't a… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e.,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws… — John Goodwin Copy Share Image
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of… — Tim Buckley Copy Share Image
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image