“How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.” HumansArtSelfEvilAnswersExistenceArt IsClaimsBoundsBackgroundsSecularHuman Existence Author:Yann Martel
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.” HumansSoulMatterHandsDesireWishAbilityTalentCreationSatisfactionBackgroundsFulfillmentOrganizedYearningInherentHuman SoulMold Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.” HumansTwoCenturyEventsUniversityObviousBackgroundsRecognitionInstructionInclusion Book:The Oriental Institute Source: The Oriental Institute
“To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.” GivingHumansArtSubjectsBackgroundsLandscapeApplesClayTorsoCezanneGoya Author:W. H. Auden
“My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansHuman NatureSolveMathBackgroundsComplexityThrivePuzzlesMath And Science Author:Michael Loceff
“Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going to deny that there are errors, because in any system that involves human beings or technology, there are going to be errors.” HumansStillsGovernmentProcessHuman BeingsTechnologyRecordsPaperErrorsDenyBackgroundsChecksAgencyManualsGovernment AgenciesBackground Checks Author:James Lee