The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes tragedy can strike at the most inopportune time of our lives. How we react to tragedy defines us by underscoring our… — Conrad Brooks Copy Share Image
Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Today we celebrate Earth Day. I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Normal humanity has only the courage to react to the usual gradations that range from the beautiful to the ugly, which in… — José Donoso Copy Share Image
“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
A man may be a Bah' in name only. If he is a Bah' in reality, his deeds and actions will be… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Glaring coldly at us, the small crowd got out of their hard back chairs and zombied down the hall until the closing… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“Remember you are everything, or you are nothing. If you are everything, then your heart is so big it can hold all… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The human enigma is, that there must be more than what there currently is. In the present moment the human being is… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Human perversity, then, makes divisions of that which by nature is one and simple, and in attempting to obtain part of something… — Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Copy Share Image
“There are things that I love – when mankind works together – helps each other – learns from each other – teaches… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
People should step back and realize we’re all humans. We all have our own individual obstacles. Who in the hell are we… — Jeff Varner Copy Share Image
Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“You know what’s so funny and sad about us human beings? . . . We are constantly torn between the all-consuming desire… — Earlene Fowler Copy Share Image
“...To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Bob, every human being acts for his or her own reasons, and they are by no means fools. Far from being fools,… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“But humans do such things all the time. Because the Sapiens social order is imagined, humans cannot preserve the critical information for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
