The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Wherefrom are human values to be derived and how are they to be developed? Human values are born along with human birth.… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who… — William Segal Copy Share Image
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
An orgasm is not what I want and I know it. What I want, need, is so much more than that. It's… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it… — Fredric Lieberman Copy Share Image
My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Sometimes in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment.As you become successful,you will need a… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
"X-Men" is not really about mutants; it's about humanity. I think it's about the human race. We're an absolutely destructive race. It… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of… — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though… — Dick Van Patten Copy Share Image
Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image