Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing… — Ian Gawler Copy Share Image
I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
To see ourselves as we truly are—a wisp of love itself—is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace.… — Judy Cannato Copy Share Image
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So,… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I… — Frances Conroy Copy Share Image
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and… — Scott Clifton Copy Share Image
With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth.… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
And when you start using a lot of psychedelics, and particularly a lot of the natural psychedelics, my experience has been that… — D. M. Turner Copy Share Image
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking… — Otis Williams Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings,… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image