No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“In agricultural communities, male leadership in the hunt ceased to be of much importance. As the discipline of the hunting band decayed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We do not know the future, but we are creating it now. How we align the vision we have for a livable… — Helen Drayton Copy Share Image
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events,… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Today, in a staggeringly complex and diverse world, the overarching biblical narrative that includes creation, fall, redemption and fulfillment has frequently been… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“Humanity as it stands, are ironically identical to children. Even though we are older and wiser, we continue to rate our status… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“even though the mind of humanity was ultimately one mind, still, each and every single individual had to establish his or her… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Education is the reason why we behave like human beings. We are hardly born human. We are born ridiculous, malodorous animals. We… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The Cold Within" Six humans trapped in happenstance In dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so… — James Patrick Kinney Copy Share Image
“Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-binding" being. This theory… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“The humans are dead(I see that they're dead) The humans are dead(I'm glad that they're dead) It had to be done(I've just… — Flight of the Conchords Copy Share Image
Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“To summarize, Lewis sees the progression like this: 1) the marginalization of value statements leads to 2) the separation of fact from… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words:… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“And as I sat there, I realised that the questions intersecting life, death, and meaning, questions that all people face at some… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We ought to consider not only that our life is daily wasting away and a smaller part of it is left, but… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr Copy Share Image
“If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing,… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
“[I]n the history of dogma [w]orld-old usages, laws and institutions continue to drag out their existence long after they have lost their… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The woman who presents herself to the spectator as a 'picture' forever arranged, is, for the contemplative mind, the chiefest danger. Sometimes… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Social scientists in the 1970s broadly accepted two ideas about human nature. First, people are generally rational, and their thinking is normally… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
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