Quotes About Human

Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.

adult humans are capable of directing attention, using willpower, and deciding to overcome a fear. If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

love is a force in human psychology that never disappears.

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.

Toda relação intensa entre seres humanos é cheia de armadilhas e, caso se queira que dure, é preciso aprender a desviar-se delas.

Blijft het feit dat ik mijn hand opstak en zei dat het menselijke lot zo duidelijk aan de blinde razernij van het toeval was blootgesteld dat jezelf aan een God toevertrouwen hetzelfde was als plaatjes verzamelen terwijl de stad brandt in het hellevuur.

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally

Você entende, Lenu, o que acontece com as pessoas: a gente tem coisa demais por dentro, e isso nos incha, nos arrebenta.

I was at the point of reproaching him for that under : my brothers under Marcello, under him, under someone else: my brothers, whom I hadn't helped in school and now, because of me, they were under . Under? No human being should be under, much less under the Solaras.

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.

Halakha, as the human way of life in accordance with the Torah, does not aim at absolute truth, nor does it run after the fata- morgana of universal truth. Neither of them is accessible to human beings. Its aim is "earthly truth" that the human intellect is able to grasp and for whose pursuance in life man must accept personal responsibility.

There was no way to go through life, in Turkish or any other language, making only factual statements about direct observations. You were forced to use -mi?, just by the human condition—just by existing in relation to other people.

Whatever else we may also be discussing, "enlightenment" was a concern with the understanding of the historical evolution of the human mind.

through the miracle of consciousness, the human psyche provides the mirror in which Nature sees herself reflected.

He understood these dreams as showing that the unconscious is the generator of the empirical personality and that the Self assumes human shape in order to enter three-dimensional reality.

What is universal is the human propensity to create order out of chaos.

Music more aptly represents human emotional processes because music, like life, appears to be in constant motion.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.

She might be furious at such things, jealous too on a purely human level; but she would never consider that the position of mistress could or would be converted into that of wife. That to Isabella – or her daughter – was quite unthinkable.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Just as no particular branch of knowledge is self-sufficing so all branches together are not self-sufficing without the queen of knowledge, philosophy, nor the whole of human knowledge without the wisdom springing from the divine science itself, theology.

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

El mayor disparate de nuestros ancestros fue imaginar que las cosas fundamentales surgen por decreto creador (divino o gubernativo) y se extinguen por decreto derogatorio (divino o gubernativo), cuando en realidad brotan de un impersonal espíritu humano obligado sin pausa a aprender de sus equivocaciones, dentro de procesos aleatorios que constituyen la historia de su propia libertad.