The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is divine meaning in the life of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and of me.
Martin Buber
The Augustan constitution remains one of the major products of the human intelligence. It was a whole into which the parts fitted smoothly, but both whole and parts were elastic and capable of swift adaptation to unforeseen conditions. It was elaborate, but that was necessary, both because of its origin and its purpose.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself.
Elias A. Ford
Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed.
Vanna Bonta
The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.
Vanna Bonta
Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a sub-atomic level.
Vanna Bonta
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Charlotte Brontë
Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.
Vanna Bonta
Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.
Vanna Bonta
Its vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanitys continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.
Vanna Bonta
Human migration beyond Earth is our destiny, not as in something preordained, but in the sense of it being inevitable and necessary. The lot of humanity seems to be that of expanding consciousness into new territory.
Vanna Bonta
Human beings are “emotional amoral egoists”, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.
Nayef Al-Rodhan