Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must… — Maya Angelou 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
It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next… — Les Parrott III Copy Share Image
“When I come to the country I cease to view man as separate from the rest. As the river runs through many… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the… — William H. Patterson Jr Copy Share Image
It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman: it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the Human. To a man, horses and dogs… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“the religious models that had existed up until then did not adequately prepare us. Only through a process of radical self-empowerment—which Ikeda,… — Clark Strand Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Human beings did not have rights. Human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights. They called it up. They languaged… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
My favorite single line from the Qur’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
“But here's the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn't proposing that as a concept; he's simply articulating what humans believe… — Sabina Berman Copy Share Image
“Can human nature be so entirely transformed inside and out? Can man, created by God, be made wicked by man? Can a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The naturalist E. O. Wilson gave a name to this warm, fuzzy feeling I’m experiencing: biophilia. He defined it as “the innately… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
We're all human beings. Experience is experience, let's just be honest. Let's not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
“Some primal instinct tells the parent, or the person down on their luck, than if we let it go — the child's… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Human culture arises directly from how we overcome the challenges of survival. Some call culture a balance between decadence and celebration. The… — David Ai Copy Share Image
“The most fundamental, a major shift from the ape brand of sociality, was the human nuclear family, which gave all males a… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
