Avid Quote by Christopher Morley

So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just…

— Peter J. Carroll

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else,…

— Ernest Dimnet

[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown…

— Richard Tarnas

Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world…

— Frederick Lenz

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, every human is a little bit an exaggerated version of a real human - in most cases, they are versions of myself.…

— Porochista Khakpour

Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive…

— Lawrence Anthony

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off…

— Immanuel Kant

No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will…

— Samuel Johnson

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode…

— Kenny Smith