“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. And that's my point; we, mankind,… — Camus, Albert Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large,… — Erlend Loe Copy Share Image
We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Men deprived of female company quickly became fearsome creatures, and Trevor believed you could argue that civilization was in fact the invention… — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
“The human psyche, like human bones, is strongly inclined towards self-healing.” — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
