“Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there’s nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“This is the gift of humanity: that it is claimed by the self. None of us...are human unless and until we claim… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with… — Valzhyna Mort Copy Share Image
I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Plato before him had said the same. The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Amid the green peace, amid the rightness of nature, the violence of a lie stands out. It is so utterly wrong, a… — Erazim V. Kohák 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
Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“These include the beliefs that the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency; that technical calculation… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“And humanism—that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives—has been tossed out… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
“We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined.… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Belief is both prize and battlefield, within the mind and in the mind's mirror, the world. If we believe humanity is a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time… — Sting Copy Share Image
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Communication between people of different nationalities enriches human society and makes it more colourful.. Imagine our Russian intellectuals, the kind, merry, perceptive… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...reading literature could teach you about the "universal human experience". Maybe you'll never hunt another man through the jungle. Maybe you won't… — Steve Dublanica Copy Share Image
The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation… — David Graeber, David Wengrow Copy Share Image
“I realised the power of the human aura through my dealings with other people. Some would measure me up, and want to… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
“Today, for the mass of humanity, science and technology embody 'miracle, mystery, and authority'. Science promises that the most ancient human fantasies… — John Gray Copy Share Image
''And one day when all is gone and mankind is lost, all he leaves is the desert.'' ''For man is his own… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“My life is bound … ; not so the life of humanity, … [T]he future always unveils the fact that the alleged… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image