Quotes About Human

Here's to alcoholic brotherhood . . . much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

Since sovereign franchise is the ultimate in human authority, we insure that all who wield it accept the ultimate in social responsibility—we require each person who wishes to exert control over the state to wager his own life—and lose it, if need be—to save the life of the state. The maximum responsibility a human can accept is thus equated to the ultimate authority a human can exert.

Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.

Man is the animal who laughs

Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average of personal values, all of which must be quantitatively different or trade would be impossible.

Any custom is man-made and is therefore a finite attempt to describe an infinity of relationships. It follows as the night from day that any custom necessarily has its exceptions.

sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive

Correct morals arise from knowing what Man is—not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were colored and controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

human being has no natural rights of any nature.

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts; those who know this and those who do not.

We don't like anything that is "simple": To us "simple" means dull or dense or stupid. We have forgotten that simplicity is a need in human life: It is the human art of finding meaning and joy in the small, natural, and less dramatic things.

You must understand that when you approach the unconscious you are dealing with one the most powerful and autonomous forces in human experience.

The Hebrew narrator does not openly meddle with the personages he presents, just as God creates in each human personality a fierce tangle of intentions, emotions, and calculations caught in a translucent net of language, which is left for the individual himself to sort out in evanescence of a single lifetime. -Chapter 4 Between Narration and Dialogue

Finally, it is the inescapable tension between human freedom and divine historical plan that is brought forth so luminously through the pervasive repetitions of the Bible's narrative art.

We have been told over and over that you can't change human nature, but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become human nature if society defines it as such.

A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.

The numbers of universes perceived by human beings does not equal the population of the planet, but several times the population of the planet. It thus appears some sort of miracle that we sometimes find it possible to communicate with each other at all, at all.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. —Nietzsche, Human, AU-Too-Human

NEUROSEMANTICS: the study of how symbolism influences the human nervous system; how the local reality-tunnel programs our thoughts, feelings and apparent sense impressions.

What I call Idols are projections of these inner compulsions of human psychology. When an Idol speaks (through its priests) it only says what the Faithful want to hear.

After we got rolling, we spent two years on it and it got longer and longer and it turned into a general satire on everything we found frightening and contemptible in the world, political extremes and hate groups of all sorts. It turned into a diatribe against the insanity of the human race.

The number of universes perceived by human beings does not equal the population of the planet, but several times the population of the planet. It thus appears some sort of miracle that we sometimes find it possible to communicate with each other at all, at all.