Doe Quote by Rose Macaulay

“Aristotle urged people to seek “the golden mean” between extremes, “moderation in all things” (which we interpret as including moderation in the pursuit of…

— Reid Hastie

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

— Francis Bacon

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

— Rudolf Virchow

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather…

— Robertson Davies

the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events…

— Stephen Jay Gould

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

— David Mitchell

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the…

— Gertrude Atherton

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion,…

— Simone Weil

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to…

— Thomas Paine

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful…

— Rudolf Virchow