Quotes About Human

It is a natural human instinct to turn our fears into symbols, and destroy the symbols, in the hope that it will destroy the fear. It is a logic that keeps recurring throughout human history, from the Crusades to the witch hunts to the present day.

This showed that loneliness isn't just some inevitable human sadness, like death. It's a product of the way we live now.

You simulate being another human so well that fiction is a far better virtual reality simulator than the machines currently marketed under that name.

like putting a Band-Aid on an amputated limb. [When] you have a person with extreme human distress, [we need to] stop treating the symptoms. The symptoms are a messenger of a deeper problem. Let's get to the deeper problem.

This is a common human response to the circumstances in which we all live. This is not something that separates you from the world. It's something, actually, you share with countless others." We need to see "this is not just my personal problem," he said, but "a shared problem—and attributable to the kind of society we live in.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

If, indeed, anyone should think that, in the communistic society, man must still remain under some form of compulsion in order to, do what is right, and leave off what is wrong, he had better give up communism at once and abandon all hope for the human race.

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Fortunately a human being can comprehend only a certain degree of unhappiness; anything beyond it destroys him or leaves him cold. There are situations in which fear and hope become one and the same, cancel one another out, and lose themselves in a dark insensateness. How else could we know the people we love best to be in continual danger and yet go on with our daily lives as usual?

He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as a divine law and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment.

He [Muhammed] is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as a divine law and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.