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Quotes About Human

The location of the servant is precisely his service. And the Lord, who is everywhere, is for the servant at the place where he will have him. In the sphere of Christ, which is an infinite sphere, a particular path of the imitation of Christ is prescribed by the will of the Lord for each individual. This imitation can extend to every area that the Lord assigns to a human being so that he may walk there.
~ Adrienne von Speyr
I am going to host Thanksgiving myself and instead of a turkey I'm serving a big human butt.
~ Aimee Bender
It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce.
~ Aimee Bender
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
~ Alain de Botton
By overwhelming consensus, our culture locates the primary difficulty of relationships in finding the 'right' person rather than in knowing how to love a real — that is, a necessarily rather unright — human being.
~ Alain de Botton
In Montaigne's redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one's mind after a meal, get bored with books, know none of the ancient philosophers and mistake Scipios. A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
~ Alain de Botton
The more closely we analyse what we consider 'sexy', the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence. The
~ Alain de Botton
It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soulmate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition: a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more
~ Alain de Botton
Our lives are not the measure of all things: consider sublime places for a reminder of human insignificance and frailty.
~ Alain de Botton
It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soul mate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition, a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect because it bypasses the normal processes of reason.
~ Alain de Botton
O notorie inabilitate de a-È™i exprima emoÈ›iile îl face pe om singurul animal capabil de sinucidere.
~ Alain de Botton
We are creature deeply marked by our expectations
~ Alain de Botton
Of course, there would be few great human achievements if we accepted all frustrations. The motor of our ingenuity is the question 'Does it have to be like this?', from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.
~ Alain de Botton
Forse, disse a Norman, leggo perché sento di dover indagare la natura degli esseri umani.
~ Alan Bennett
Watching people behave is nothing special; watching them trying to behave is always fascinating.
~ Alan Bennett
Kyetäkseen kirjoittamaan ihmisen on oltava sitkeä.
~ Alan Bennett
The human psyche is a strange creation. We believe that the known is always preferable to the unknown, even if the known sucks.
~ Alan Cohen
Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.
~ Alan Dean Foster
By the "mysterious," I do not think Einstein was referring to something fearful or supernatural. I believe he was speaking about the boundary between the known and the unknown. Standing at that boundary is an exhilarating experience. And it is a deeply human experience—concerning what the human mind understands and what that mind does not yet understand.
~ Alan Lightman
I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.
~ Alan Moore
Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?
~ Alan Moore
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.
~ Alan Moore
I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am rain. I cannot be contained
~ Alan Moore
I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am a rain. I cannot be contained. Free of Life, how then shall I be shackled? Free of Time, how then shall History be my cage? I am a wave, an influence. Who then shall be made safe from me?
~ Alan Moore