The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can't drill our way out of this crisis.' What does… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do it safely, without the loss of human life,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I am secretly afraid of animals… I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human… — Jenna Coleman Copy Share Image
Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true… — John Powell Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The American child is a highly intelligent human being; characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, has a strong sense of excitement,… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
You should not say anything that you cannot put your totality behind. The total value of you is that whatever you say,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My plea is that as we continue our search for truth, particularly we of the Church, that we look for strength and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Nature actually works through intense cooperation. There is competition in nature , but it thrives through cooperation. We don't teach this to… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the… — Ramon Magsaysay Copy Share Image
A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
When a human body is out of balance we call that disease, which indicates dis-ease of the body. Likewise, when the body… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image