Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“I have heard people suggest that because humans are natural that everything humans do or create is natural. Chainsaws are natural. Nuclear… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfalls of produce from the earth… — Sarah Rajkotwala Copy Share Image
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“The God Wars had not been a pleasant time for Craftsmen and Craftswomen around the world. One day, you’re a simple thaumaturge,… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The values, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the values of charity… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think as humans we are hardwired for a couple of things. One of those is community, only second to God. Relationship… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
“the rule among the human race—a rule that naturally admits of exceptions—is that the reputedly hard are the weak whom nobody wanted,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“He saw mankind going trough life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time.… — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“Look in the heart and write...The man who writes like that, without pride or artifice, as it were for himself, is in… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“What I have observed about humans and animals so far: 90% of humans around me are LUSTY, SELFISH, EGOISTIC, CUNNING, MONEY-MINDED, ARROGANT,… — Kartik Kaushal Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“This is the age of the individual and there is no reason to believe that this focus of mankind is likely to… — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
“It is clear that there is a very great deal to be learnt about the universe and the endless subtleties of its… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out.… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
“It is in the legitimation of death that the transcending potency of symbolic universes manifests itself most clearly, and the fundamental terror-assuaging… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine , and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we… — Adalbert Stifter Copy Share Image
The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“I thought about evolutionary historians who argued that walking was a central part of what it meant to be human. Our two-legged… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/ human… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“the human attempt to establish security in the face of fear of insecurity. That is why people go to war and exploit… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
