Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature. —Laozi More about this quote Tags: nature fault Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Tags: truth discovery knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: honesty truth privacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police. Everybody else you tell the truth to. —Jack Nicholson More about this quote Tags: truth lying girlfriend police Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. —Thomas Carlyle More about this quote Tags: honesty world value Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If truth is beauty, how come no one has her hair done in a library? —Lily Tomlin More about this quote Tags: truth beauty library Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most delusional fantasies can be made to masquerade as sanity if you've got the political power to reinforce them. —Penny Skillman More about this quote Tags: politics power fantasy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All civilization ever does is hide the blood and cover up hate with pretty words. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American Dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back. —Alan Alda as Hawkeye on M*A*S*H More about this quote Tags: technology freedom democracy achievement America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fact is I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil. —Norman Mailer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[The philosopher] Wittgenstein writes about a man who, not being certain of an item he reads in the newspaper, buys one hundred copies of the paper to reassure himself of its truth. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: truth man Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
During my second year of nursing school, our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. —Joann C. Jones More about this quote Tags: attention career school class care smile Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another. —Simone de Beauvoir More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. —Elizabeth Wray Taylor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. —Eugene V. Debs More about this quote Tags: kinship living soul prison men class better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email