The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of...
I'm reading a book that actually scares me. It is not a form of fear that is embodied in some irrational phobia of a specific object, living being, or an event, but a fear of words, of actions of beings towards one another, how one word or command wr...
The cost for my survival must have been hundreds of millions of dollars. All to save one dorky botanist. Why bother? Well, okay. I know the answer to that. Part of it might be what I represent: progress, science, and the interplanetary future we've d...
I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring...
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
The temple of God is the holy people in Jesus Christ. The Body of Christ is the living temple of God and of the new humanity.
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.
Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
Perhaps her requirements were too great, Or her indulgence for human weakness too small, For her attempts to form a friendship had always Ended in disappointment.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.
It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.
It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.
She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.
The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.
