Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have.… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
It would seem unlikely that a manufacturer of short-lived paperboard boxes could make the slightest cultural impact upon his time. But the… — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized;… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble." But… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
In Genesis, it is stated God walked on Earth. He was there on the level. After watching human behavior, he ascended having… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands.… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order,… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;… — Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Copy Share Image
Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently… — Lawrence Anthony Copy Share Image
