There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The Koran says that humanity has been created to recognize and worship God and, as a dimension of this worship, to improve… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
I once read a story from Plato, who claimed that in the ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Experiential versus the God eye! Possessing ‘ego vision’, a person’s view through her/his physical eyes is quite versatile; able to discern wide… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors.… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
“We humans almost universally have a false self-image of our species. We think that monstrous, wicked policies must be, can only be,… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“Who is this woman who preached of the “web of life” that all creation shares, but who warned that “the earth must… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as… — Sallie Tisdale Copy Share Image
“To be needed and loved were the greatest gifts in life. It gave a sense of belonging that we all yearned for.… — Alicia Rae Copy Share Image
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must… — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
We have entered an age where religious ideologies and nuclear technology coexist. This alone is a terrifying concept, plus the fact that… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
“If a Martian (who, we'll imagine, never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures -… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization seems to be incapable of producing people endowed with imagination, intelligence, and courage. In practically every country there is a… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other than himself, not contained… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity'… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
