If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Reverence, human of the Earth, is the fundamental element of all existence, so it is therefore also the fundamental element of love… — Billy Meier Copy Share Image
It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all… — Samuel B. Pettengill Copy Share Image
For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation,… — Judith Hand Copy Share Image
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When you see a Tibetan doctor taking care of a patient, first of all, of course there are many wonderful medicines that… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language… — John Berger Copy Share Image
There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings… — David C. Coates Copy Share Image
As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image