#hum

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#another #body #human #human body #indifference

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#art #cunning #face #final #gods

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#athletes #cancer #constantly #courage #fight

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too. ↗

— George Murray

#fine #fine line #harder #humour #i

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development. ↗

— Margaret Murray

#call #civilized #development #growth #human

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. ↗

— Modest Mussorgsky

#art #end #humanity #itself #means

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#glimpses #human #human strength #me #physician

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#good #hopes #humble #modest #otherwise

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. ↗

— Graham Nash

#became #began #beings #better #better way

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#also #democracy #expression #freedom #freedom of expression