#uma

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#been #born #called #capacity #christmas

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ↗

— Socrates

#death #greatest #human #may

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. ↗

— Socrates

#everywhere #extension #fear #presumably #reverence

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#admit #always #brutality #element #existence

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#human #human rights #much #obligations #rights

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#cautious #forever #human #human being #remain

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#central #even #human #human beings #important

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#clearly #conscience #humanity #justice #own

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#humane #i #lot #rescue #society

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. ↗

— Sophocles

#day #human #human things #lays #lifts