We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human. — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“What is beautiful reminds us of nature as such—of what lies beyond the human and the made—and thereby stimulates and deepens our… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid. — Edward Bernds Copy Share Image
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of… — Morris West Copy Share Image
“There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Human makes the rules, human breaks the rules. Just in the middle of time in that others suffer for good or bad.” — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“These forces are humanity, nature, the demonic, and God. Each of these forces, both biblically speaking and practically speaking, are capable of… — Stephen D. Morrison Copy Share Image
I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least.… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours… — E. M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -… — Garrett P. Serviss Copy Share Image
“If I believe in humanity and all that encompasses it including being kind and respectful of others, then I hereby declare that… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image