a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
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
Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“What makes humans valuable in the first place? Science can't answer that question because science deals only with things we can measure… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It has never been matter of wonder to me that human resolutions are liable to change; one passion gives them birth, another… — Antoine François Prévost Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music,… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Along with everything else, I know that there is a beauty in mankind. It is a beauty that no ugliness, no violence,… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The public interest has shifted from the nature of man to the nature of nature and to the prospects of domination its… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“I marvelled about the nature of humanity, and how something as lovely as friendship could stem from something so hideous.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“Time is a mysterious gift given with measure and purpose to be uniquely unwrapped and deployed in the service of feats that… — Oliver Harper Copy Share Image
Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs… — Caroline Dries Copy Share Image
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short,… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.” — Lynn Hunt Copy Share Image
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature… — Bokeem Woodbine Copy Share Image
There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Humanity is something we're lacking, and I will continue to do my job to bring back those attributes that we lack today… — George Hill Copy Share Image
We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival. — Jeremy Gilley Copy Share Image
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Spider-man: My gosh! There's a real human being under all that macho? Punisher: Yes, I'm human. It's my greatest weakness. But I… — David Michelinie Copy Share Image
