Quotes About Human

In any case, it is neither the responsibility nor the purpose of art to make us better human beings. And it's no wonder that art that takes on this solemn task so often winds up being didactic, preachy, cloying, and less effective than art with a less exalted notion of its purpose.

The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create.

Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes.

Once . . . long ago, he'd thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him.

Pride overcame Paul's fear. You dare suggest a duke's son is an animal? he demanded. Let us say I suggest you may be human, she said. Steady! I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you escape me.

The natural human´s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as raw material from which to create order. That was the Mentat approach, giving no unalterable truths but a remarkable lever for decision-making: orderly assemblage of data in a non-discrete system.

The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the environment.

The attack by those who want to die — this is the attack against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense. — Human aphorism

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense, But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

The old woman said: "You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings. And when they make mistakes, their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question.

Individual human experience is not the overriding control factor in human behavior. The cellular social pattern dominates.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. —FROM "THE SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

But this being has human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.

Não há mistério na vida humana. Não é um problema a ser resolvido, mas uma realidade a ser experimentada.

Leave absolute knowledge of the future to those moments of déjà vu which any human may experience. I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.

es una característica de los humanos que, cuando nos enfrentamos a nuestros problemas personales, las cosas más íntimas son las que mejor resisten el análisis de nuestra lógica. Tendemos a buscar excusas a nuestro alrededor, a acusar a todo y a todos, menos al verdadero problema que nos reconcome por dentro.

Each project ship must maintain its coefficient of frustration," went the private admonition. "Frustration must come from both human and mechanical sources." They

Nevoia persistent? de univers logic È™i coerent este profund ancorat? în inconÈ™tientul uman. Dar universul real se afl? întotdeauna cu un pas în faÈ›a logicii.