I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
We are equal human beings, and we were born with evil and anger and misunderstanding of what a man is, and so… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little… — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it… — William James Copy Share Image
The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell… Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it.… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to present a sweep and scope of larger events, and a grander backdrop, but most important was to set against… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
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