“We succeeded in taking that picture from [deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Every human society must of necessity be composed of several strata. You may disturb it temporarily into an amorphous whole by a… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
In people, I don't see race, color, or religion. I see individuals, humans, beautiful people, opinions, even when they are told they… — Christopher Timmerman Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“However, of the three, action has the closest connection with the human condition of natality; the new beginning inherent in birth can… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Since we’re mortal, solving human problems continues to demand the human touch. Even when higher vibrational insights can become part of a… — Rose Rosetree Copy Share Image
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Moreover, despite the astonishing things that humans are capable of doing, we remain unsure of our goals and we seem to be… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“...the human soul is a divine non-substance. A spirit that permeates our flesh, dwells in our conscious, and rules our subconscious self.… — Nick Tran Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we look in vain to philosophy for the answer to the great riddle. Despite its noble purpose and history, pure philosophy… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The idea that humanity is divided into these separate and distinct and disparate groups with clear boundaries has been disproven by science… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
“A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“All the discussion in the meeting that day had centered on the impacts to humans. That would be the usual way of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain _faithful_ to the Divine while living in… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“...the news should help us with mourning the twisted nature of man and reconciling us to the difficulty of being able to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has… — Horatio Bottomley Copy Share Image
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“In its timeless capacity to embody the human condition, the vampire is a poignant metaphor describing the psychosocial experience of the pariah… — Katherine Ramsland Copy Share Image
“At the micro-sociological level, most humans are doing better than ever. Yet there is so much confusion, suffering and bitter resentment. How… — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image