Quotes About Human

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

At the most practical level, a reformed, enlightened, hopeful Catholic Church is essential to the thriving — even to the survival — of the human species.

scientific naturalism has proven incapable of accounting for a whole range of human experiences, from simple self-awareness to love.

As the last stage of their training, we made them bayonet a living human

Kurita knew that heavenly influences could be counted upon to trump human planning. In war, events seldom cooperate with expectation. Given

God had plans, but the reasons for those plans were too lofty to fathom in the weakness of his human mind. But his heart? His heart still ached at the loss he suffered. Was still suffering.

Holy crap, I'm scared." "Holy crap, you're human. You should be scared.

When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.

The creature was a horrific mix of animal and machine, and seemed to realize it was being observed, seemed to know what lay inside the walls of the Glade, seemed to want to get inside and feast on human flesh.

The future of the human race outweighs all. Every death and every sacrifice are well worth the ultimate outcome.

I had begun to suspect, however, that there is a poet—or a kind of poet—buried in every human being like Ariel in his tree, and that the people whom we are pleased to call poets are only those who have felt the need and contrived the means to release this spirit from its prison

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

One fights only to save his family from imminent harm. Fighting for any other reason, least of all pride, is a waste of human lives and resources.

An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

To forgive is human, to forget divine. . ..

What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.