The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
“All the discussion in the meeting that day had centered on the impacts to humans. That would be the usual way of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The idea that humanity is divided into these separate and distinct and disparate groups with clear boundaries has been disproven by science… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
“Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder what being a human means, is it to do what other creatures can't do? it's actually means to do… — Tarek Soloman Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“An upright hominid could see better, but could also be seen better. Even now as a species, we are almost preposterously vulnerable… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“While the squire pulled out a flat weed she was beside herself with pity for humanity. This short, this fearful loveliness, in… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
“Hidden in the physical work space, in the user's words, and in the tools they use are the beautiful gems of knowledge… — Jon Kolko Copy Share Image
It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“However, Hardy's relationship with nature is a dialectical one. While he indicates that he recognizes how human perception shapes nature, he nevertheless… — Shirley A. Stave Copy Share Image
“For a century, the human response to stress and danger has been defined as “fight or flight.” A 2000 UCLA study by… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Every human is equal in terms of the laws of nature. No one, not even if they are a highly respected icon… — David Yager Copy Share Image
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
There's eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, 'Yeah, we live on a planet that's permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“Nothing human is merely human,” writes the theologian Ronald Modras. “No common labor is merely common. Classrooms, hospitals, and artists’ studios are… — Jim Manney Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Sci-fi novels are concerned with problems faced by all of humanity. Crises in sci-fi mostly threaten humanity as a whole. This is… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“The organs of our own bodies, arms, hands, lungs, kidneys function as a cooperative in order to survive. Humans and animals and… — Ajhan Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
