Quotes of: Humanities Keyword

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled ...

A Thread of Grace

In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice.

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

Peace of Mind: Insights on Human Nature That Can Change Your Life

(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)

Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

Poverty of Spirit

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: "They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave.

The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.

A Theory of Human Motivation

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.

Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way." - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167

The Thirteen Problems

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.

The Thinker's Way

You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Today’s man should do more than just talk; he should act. He should do more than just promise; he should deliver.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

ACT on your dreams! It is not enough to just want it. Don't throw away another day. Take action and watch them come alive!

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Success is not about your techniques, it’s not solely about the wisdom or the knowledge you have, it’s about your mindset and your actions.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience