Quotes About Human

So 'Nier Automata' feels like a story about androids but no, the main theme of 'Automata' is human.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

Every human is so layered. And 'Brain,' that theme is about - I'm just such a sensitive person, and I can pick up people's energies.

we are spiritual beings first and foremost, and it is impossible to thrive in a culture that does not honor and nurture things of the human spirit over and above material concerns.

In a letter to soldiers in 1798, John Adams, a Founding Father and practicing Unitarian, remarked: We had no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

As a perversion of religion, Progress as an ideology speaks appealingly to hungry human hearts.

A virtuous society, by contrast, is one that shares belief in objective moral goods and the practices necessary for human beings to embody those goods in community. To

it is not by winning an argument but by keeping yourself grounded in reality that you carry on the human heritage.

You see, we can feed the stomach with concentrates, we can supply microfilm for reading, recreation, even movies of a sort, we can pump oxygen in, and waste material out, but there's one thing we can't simulate. That's a very basic need. Man's hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness, that's one thing we haven't licked yet.

War leaves a legacy of human suffering that does not end with peace.

Here is the platform and principle of the whole structure of our knowledge. <> He who could push me into contradicting the senses would have me by the throat; he could not push me further back. The senses are the beginning and the end of human knowledge:

The first consideration I have on the subject of the senses is that I doubt that man is provided with all the natural senses.

Friendship is a vital part of what Eric Berne described as 'recognition hunger', 'the quest for special kinds of sensations which can only be supplied by another human being, or in some cases, by other animals' (Berne, 1972/75, page 41). This

Arminians share with classical Calvinists a firm belief in human depravity and the necessity of divine initiative for salvation.

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

All that I am willing to tell you at this time is what the creature told me about human beings. I also want to tell you he downloaded a tremendous amount of knowledge into my head. It caused me to have headaches lasting for over two weeks following the event.

a meaningful politics must recognize other important values in human life. Indeed, politics makes no sense when it stands by itself. If the question who wields political power is not broadened to take account of what that power is to be used for-that is, what human values it will serve-then it reduces to a matter of who manages to subdue whom.*

There is nothing we can do or not do that successfully conceals our intentions from the dogs, it seems. ... I'd like to think they can read our minds but then it would really be scary because I'm not sure souls as tender, wise, and honest should be subjected to human perfidy.

Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest...

I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title "organized religion." What, I wondered, was disorganized religion?

The realm of human understanding is the only realm most of us have access to," I said.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?