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
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
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
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western… — Kenzaburo Oe 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
A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
If I had cast someone else who didn't have that kind of timing, it would have been leaden and one note. But… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began.… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation-… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What… — William Greider Copy Share Image
George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Allow humans to be themselves and celebrate that selfness. Love the metaphoric mind and respect the rational. Nurture Motivation. Consider any attempt… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image