I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Why is human cloning illegal? All it is is making a certain type of person on purpose. Can they possibly be any… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes… — A. D. Gordon Copy Share Image
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being until he loves him. By his love he… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine… If I had a thousand sons, the first… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best -… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person;… — Robert Audi Copy Share Image
If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming… I remain to be convinced about… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
