Quotes About Human

What prompts so many commentators to speak of the 'end of history', of post-modernity, 'second modernity' and 'surmodernity', or otherwise to articulate the intuition of a radical change in the arrangement of human cohabitation and in social conditions under which life-politics is nowadays conducted, is the fact that the long effort to accelerate the speed of movement has presently reached its 'natural limit' .

From the start and to this very day, modernity was about forcing nature to serve obediently human needs, ambitions and desires –

Understanding (not necessarily acceptance) is vital in dealing with other people, whether those people are human, Simiu, Mizari, or energy beings.

The brutal limitations placed on women's emotions, the pseudo-psychiatric judgements and labelling and the herding of women into therapy and psychiatry, calls attention to the fact that women are still the second sex, a sex that is denied the full range of human emotions.

Lament the human addiction to apologies, and how easily they are botched.

One may observe all the laws and still be practicing a disguised polytheism. For if in performing a religious act one's intention is to please a human being whom he fears or from whom he hopes to receive benefit, then it is not God whom he worships but a human being.

sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

In any system of terror, the functionaries must first of all see the victims as less than human, and Victorian ideas about race provided such a foundation.

The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration. To live fully and securely, every human being needs what Arendt calls specificity, the social and political status that comes with full membership in a community.

These are the two possibilities for human life.

I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes they didn't even sound human. Sometimes she sounded like a cow, and for some weird reason, that made me think about hamburgers and I suddenly realized how starved I was.

Human enjoyment was a fragile skin drawn over a great depth of potential misery

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.

The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary.

Human society, when we contemplate it in a certain abstract and philosophical light, appears like a great, an immense machine.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart.

How can you quantify the moment when a person laughs, or when they cry, when they feel? You can't. It's the human experience.

The illusion of time lying, he knew, was to make people think life could have more in it than it actually could. Actually, time flying could make human lives seem victorious over time itself. Time flew so fast in ways it failed to make an impact. People's lives ell between its stabbing powers like insects between raindrops. We cheat the power of time with our very brevity! he said aloud to Bekka, feeling confident she would understand, but she only just kept petting the cats.