The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake” — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Mankind is advanced technically. Man can build space stations, can assemble them in space, and ponders about landing on Mars, but the… — Sigmund Jahn Copy Share Image
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“He marvelled at the assortment of human life spread out before him. The rich brushed shoulders with the poor, Irish men cracked… — Ken Magee Copy Share Image
There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“...we're a people who pollute the very air we breathe. And our rivers. We're destroying the great lakes; Erie is already gone,… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
Christianity asserts that God made himself human. Those are two different categories - two different levels of worthiness. God is one category,… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Anaximander (ca. 610 BC–ca. 546 BC), a friend and possibly a student of Thales, argued that since human infants are helpless at… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself,… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to… — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
“If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET… — Silvia Hartmann Copy Share Image
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly,… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“But I also knew that the human condition leads us to feel alive when confronted with things that we have never imagined,… — Laura Thomas Copy Share Image
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Whenever I observe something in nature that I (or mankind) think is wrong, I assume that I’m wrong and try to figure… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Stone Age humans from wild animals being used for war / battle that continues to this day / but goals have changed,… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“In the midst of thinking we r having fun, doing wrong knowingly, we humans tend to loose more than what we had/have.… — Henry Lali Copy Share Image
One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jesus, the fullness of God and man, is the full perfection of humanity, and he calls us to a humanity that is… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
