As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
—Carl Jung
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
—George Orwell
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the human heart that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
—Leo Tolstoy
The majority of human actions aren’t a result of reason, or even of emotion, but of mindless imitation, of suggestion.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
—George Orwell
Love is a life-giving fire in the human soul, and everything created by man under the influence of this feeling is marked by the seal of life and poetry.
—Taras Shevchenko
I think computer viruses should count as life.. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
—Stephen Hawking
“The sword of justice hath less power over human hearts than the sceptre of mercy.”
– Charles Spurgeon
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
—Carl Jung
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
—Carl Jung
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
—Stephen Hawking
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
—Charles Darwin
I think computer viruses should count as life.. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
—Stephen Hawking
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.
Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.
Here the secret lies.
Here lies the entire story.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.
Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.
Here the secret lies.
Here lies the entire story.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
—Ernest Hemingway
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
—Voltaire
I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
—Stephen Hawking
One of humanity’s most dangerous superstitions is the belief that a large group of people, sometimes millions, can call themselves people of a single nation or a single state. People kill and rob each other because of this superstition.
—Leo Tolstoy
Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?
—J. Gresham Machen
Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept, if we would have it sweet and sound.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
—Aldous Huxley
Money is a new form of slavery, distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that there’s no human relation between master and slave.
—Leo Tolstoy
[Historic Christianity] provides for the individual a refuge from all the fluctuating currents of human opinion.
—J. Gresham Machen
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
—Carl Jung
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
The sun is the width of a human foot.
—Heraclitus