To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together.… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“In other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
“This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face ... People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
“This island of Earth of ours is finite in resources, including wilderness- particularly wilderness. The dwindling worldwide reservoir of wild lands must… — David Brower Copy Share Image
All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which,… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply… — katherine applegate Copy Share Image
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . .… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“these entries we can see Smith focusing on the human landscape and the tension he felt between isolation and the teeming churn… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image