To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people]… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity… — Timothy M. Dolan Copy Share Image
... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when… — Philip Clayton Copy Share Image
What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud,… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad,… — Jonathan Moyo Copy Share Image
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing… — John Keats Copy Share Image
At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else-whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind.… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to… — Jonathan Cainer Copy Share Image
Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image