Animal instinct Quote by Bertrand Russell

“And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries,…

— Jack London

“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so…

— Anonymous

“If we lived long enough to see the results of our actions, it may be that those who call themselves good would be sickened…

— Oscar Wilde - The Critic as Artist

“To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food…

— Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the…

— Maryanne Wolf

“We find ourselves in a world of transporting pleasures, ravishing beauties, and tantalising possibilities, but all constantly being destroyed, all coming to nothing. Nature…

— C.S. Lewis

“Having a good life doesn’t mean nothing bad happens. It means using sadness and setback as mechanisms for spiritual growth. That’s the highest form…

— Jarod Kintz

“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been wrong. We…

— Wendell Berry

“The Good Life is not the life of reason alone, but that of the dominance of reason over the spirited energies and the bodily…

— T.Z. Lavine

“Heaven is clear and calm; earth is stable and tranquil. Humans who reject these virtues perish, while those who adopt them thrive.”

— Huai-nan tzu

“If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule,…

— Orson Scott Card