Over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
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I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing… — George Rodrigue Copy Share Image
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“This emotion called love. It is wrapped up in time, measured by years. The more I see of humans the more complicated… — Sally Gardner Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Observe that for the novelist who has remained Christian, like myself, man is someone creating himself or destroying himself. He is not… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
“The presence of God compelled human[s] to quest for an ideal. They had to strive for something to win God's blessing… Nietzsche… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
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“...God's love is unspeakable, implacable, its gaze matter-of-fact. But human love is something else: We love in excess of God's love if… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“This is reality in a universe without God: there is no hope; there is no purpose. It reminds me of T.S. Eliot’s… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize.… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
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Boys complain about Girls, Girls complain about boys, I honestly believe that we are privileged to be at the top of the… — Jeremy Mark Limn Copy Share Image
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
“thoughts could just as well have come to Martin Luther King out of the great Bantu dictum on humanity’s indivisibility: Umuntu ngumuntu… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole,… — Friedrich Frobel Copy Share Image
The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“It is my assertion, however, that the project of remaking humanity and defining identity has been at the core of this century,… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“There will come a time when man is no longer concerned only with survival, when he will once more be curious as… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Whereas the will is made of titanium and steel, the human spirit is a million times more delicate. It reflects the self-concept… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
“Why does Jesus regard the Father and himself as the best model for all humans? Because neither the Father nor the Son… — René Girard Copy Share Image
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