We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking ...
I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by look...
Humans are not separate from God, rather, humans are part of the complex system/force we call God. Not acknowledging we are fragments of the complex God is where some religions are dividing you and I, thereby creating confusion on the REAL NATURE OF ...
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220)
Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.
I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they r...
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Still, he was angry--that particular anger of humans defied by the persistence of nature.
A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.
No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
