Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them,… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands,… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the… — Jonathan Littell Copy Share Image
I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long… — Dennis Weaver Copy Share Image
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with complete certainty… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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