“Whether we accept it or not, this will likely be the century that determines what the optimal human population is for our… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Haven't you got it through your head that human thought is a thing of the past & that philosophy is worse than… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize… — Edgar Morin Copy Share Image
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The Human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. We make a mistake, we… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Men who, in their hearts, really care no more for mankind than See-wise cared for the fish, lift their voices in shouts… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Truly is when you die,leaving from this world nobody going with you ,even though peoples who love you or family they will… — Chunyanuch Copy Share Image
You mean one human is good, but a hundred humans is bad?" "Exactly. One human is just a person. A hundred humans… — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Does a thing have to be flesh and blood to be alive?” he asked, voice low and brimming with anger. "Do humans… — Tiffany Roberts Copy Share Image
Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality - a God-given force - be they brought about by the State or… — Albert Lutuli Copy Share Image
“Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of… — Ian Goldin Copy Share Image
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable… — Gyorgy Lukács Copy Share Image
“The origins of any productive system seem to be traceable to conditions in which the self-interest driven purposes of individuals are allowed… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy. The search for… — Anthony Lilles Copy Share Image
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightnessof human genius, are destined to extinctionin… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“What I have observed about humans and animals so far: 90% of humans around me are LUSTY, SELFISH, EGOISTIC, CUNNING, MONEY-MINDED, ARROGANT,… — Kartik Kaushal Copy Share Image
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“Look in the heart and write...The man who writes like that, without pride or artifice, as it were for himself, is in… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“He saw mankind going trough life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time.… — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“the rule among the human race—a rule that naturally admits of exceptions—is that the reputedly hard are the weak whom nobody wanted,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I think as humans we are hardwired for a couple of things. One of those is community, only second to God. Relationship… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
“The values, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the values of charity… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The God Wars had not been a pleasant time for Craftsmen and Craftswomen around the world. One day, you’re a simple thaumaturge,… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfalls of produce from the earth… — Sarah Rajkotwala Copy Share Image
“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image