The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Interesting point of view is to see humankind and its history as dysfunctional humanity, from very beginnings of first cultural traits up… — Adam Kovacevic Copy Share Image
“To love mankind for the sake of God-that has been the most nobel and far-fetched feeling yet achieved by human beings. The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Every human thought, word, or deed is based on fear or love. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“humanity will always include a certain percentage of psychotics, megalomaniacs and religious fanatics. However, where the deranged few could do little more… — Daniel Pecaut Copy Share Image
“Your pain is not prescribed by your creator, He is the healer thus not giver of misery. We are victims of others;… — Zarina Bibi Copy Share Image
“A realization washed over her in that cold, dark space: this was how virtually all living things born on earth have died—with… — David Wong Copy Share Image
All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“In an almost totally insentient cosmos only human feeling is interesting or relevant to what the soul searches for...suffering is the most… — Fred Chappell Copy Share Image
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“the greatest danger which today’s humanity need fear is not a catastrophe which comes from out there somewhere, a stellar catastrophe, neither… — Luigi Giussani Copy Share Image
“What great minds lie in the dust,” said Guyal in a low voice. “What gorgeous souls have vanished into the buried ages;… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is more to us than our physical bodies. We are made of physical stuff, of course, but we are made of… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
“Humans, I was discovering, believed they were in control of their own lives, and so they were in awe of questions and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“According to a Confucian view, there are four steps in social develpment, wrote Wilhem (Sr.). There are the individual, the family, the… — Hellmut Wilhelm Copy Share Image
“Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined those dead, those living, those generations yet to come that the fate of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.'… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“The Way is not remote from people, but people distance themselves from the Way by trying to nurture life without knowing how.… — Chen Kaiguo Copy Share Image
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
“I firmly disagree with anyone who says humans are the most advanced, or the most intelligent species on the planet. In fact,… — Israel Morrow Copy Share Image
“It is that instinctive need of having a worship in common that is the chief suffering of every man, the chief concern… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Faith in the future life is … faith in the truth of the imagination, as faith in God is faith in the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The transformation of the community into an administrative state responsible for total social welfare leads to a paternal totality without a house-father… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightnessof human genius, are destined to extinctionin… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy. The search for… — Anthony Lilles Copy Share Image
“The origins of any productive system seem to be traceable to conditions in which the self-interest driven purposes of individuals are allowed… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable… — Gyorgy Lukács Copy Share Image