Quotes About Human

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.

Human life was rarely shapely, only intermittently meaningful, its clumsiness the inevitable consequence of the victory of content over form, of what and when over how and why.

If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

Maybe this is what human history was: the brief illusion of happy victories set in a long continuum of bitter, disillusioning defeats.

The problem is not technological," he said. "And there is no technological solution to it. The problem is human, human nature in general, male human nature in particular

Crisis shines a very bright light on human behavior, leaves no shadows in which we can hide, and reveals, simultaneously, the worst of which we are capable and our better natures

Metamorphosis, this is what I need to explain to her, is what supplants our need for the divine. This is what we can perform, our human magic

Va contra la naturaleza humana caminar mansamente hasta que el mar se te traga.

Anyway, she wrote, it's good to learn that over there is not so very unlike over here , and that human intelligence and human stupidity, as well as human nature, the best and worst of it, are the great constants in the changing world.

Proximity to calamity released the human capacity for love.

Fact is,' he said without any of his usual bonhomie, 'religious fafaith, which encodes the highest ass ass aspirations of human race, is now, in our cocountry, the servant of lowest instincts, and gogo God is the creature of evil.

union of opposites to form human nature was just what human beings told themselves to rationalize away their imperfections. Maybe it was just too neat, and the truth was that evil deeds trumped good ones. It didn't matter, for example, that Hitler was kind to dogs.

Meaning was the frame human beings placed around the chaos of being to give it shape

here is so particular wisdom in the East, all human beings are foolish to the same degree.

if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need of poets.

You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

While religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction, it is still sheltered from criticism in every corner of our culture.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.