Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the… — Charles Chilton Moore Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
We are all capable of living lives characterized by great joy. Within each of us is an amazing human spirit that is… — Salle Merrill Redfield Copy Share Image
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As… — John Astin Copy Share Image
That's what I love about the Pleiadians. It allows people to start understanding their own human process and understand the dynamic that… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health… — Mike Johanns Copy Share Image
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold… — William Penn Copy Share Image