For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I would avoid any product that contains genetically modified (GMO) corn, because there are still questions regarding the long-term health effects of… — Deirdre Imus Copy Share Image
No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world,… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Just be careful. When we arrive at the house, you can’t look to me for help or instruction. Remember, I am your… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not… — William Blake Copy Share Image
History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
