Quotes About Human

For one thing, it helps us see the logical consistency of Human preferences for what it is—a hopeless mirage

I had stumbled onto a significant fact of the human condition: the feedback to which life exposes us is perverse. Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.

there is a large amount of objective ignorance in the prediction of human behavior.

Other classic studies showed that electrical stimulation of specific areas in the rat brain (and of corresponding areas in the human brain) produce a sensation of intense pleasure, so intense in some cases that rats who can stimulate their brain by pressing a lever will die of starvation without taking a break to feed themselves

the strong conclusion that simple mechanical rules were generally superior to human judgment

Ich habe herausgefunden, dass der Mensch bereit ist, Unbill zu erfahren, aber viel Erkenntnis entgeht ihm, weil er den Schmerz fürchtet.

That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

The pragmatic piece of James's decision is that believing in a free will feels intuitive. It is fundamental to what feeling human is all about; it is basic to being an "I." That is, right up until we find it useful or comforting to believe that uncontrollable forces determine our actions. Then we are back in "the devil made me do it" territory.

When you receive payment after supplying the needs of a client, a customer, your boss, or, if you are a member of the clergy, even a congregant, that money is testament to your having pleased another human being.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

Ocidente construiu um olhar sobre o trabalho colocando-o como o centro da vida, da realização e da dignidade da pessoa humana. E jogou por terra outros pensamentos, outras teorias, outras práticas que não levavam em consideração uma visão de tempo centrada na produção.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

A fundamental misunderstanding obtained however, which has since run like a red thread through my entire life. It is based upon the fact that, within the order of the World, God did not really understand the living human being and had no need to understand him, because, according to the Order of the World, He dealt only with corpses.

Ma è così la vita: se incontri un essere umano nella folla, seguilo... seguilo.

He was an echo chamber for all books, the physical incarnation of words, the book made human.

He was explaining how capitalism is bad--and I could see he had a point, but at the same time, I got the feeling that socialism or communism, or whatever he's selling, is probably just as bad, and the problem is human beings can ruin anything, even if it's a good idea to begin with.

Taoists, on the other hand, speak not of a supreme being but of a supreme state of being – a sublime state that lies deeply locked within every human being and can be reached only through the greatest personal effort and self-discipline.

more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.

It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.

In the early American republic, the most significant challenge to the traditional assumption that the worth of human beings depended on their race, class, and gender came from the scriptural teachings that all are equal in the sight of God and all are one in Christ.

Spencer wasn't crazy. He was incredibly calculating. Brilliantly so. Even she could admit that. Under different circumstances, Spencer might have been considered a genius. But she refused to believe that. He was sick. Twisted. But human.

The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.