Humanity

Desire

"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs." Mark Twain, Following the Equator US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse." Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Peace

"If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known." George C. Marshall US general (1880 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Mind

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it not open." Frank...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Science

"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered." Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005 English cosmologist and physicist (1942 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Language

"Language is the source of misunderstandings." Antoine de Saint-Exupery French writer (1900 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Work

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another." Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard French novelist (1844 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Intelligent Life

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." Bill Watterson, cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes US cartoonist (1958 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Funny but True!

"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Freedom & Security

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither." Benjamin...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

What Is Man?

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906) US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Humanity & Education

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H. G. Wells, Outline of History (1920) English author, historian, & utopian (1866 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

History & Crime

"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes." Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 -...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Knowledge

"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life." Helen...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>