Quotes About Human

That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by experiences of the past.

The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit? —Proverbs 18:14

Los psicólogos han llegado a la conclusión de que la necesidad de sentirse amado es una necesidad emocional primaria del ser humano. Por amor, escalaremos montañas, cruzaremos mares, atravesaremos las arenas del desierto y soportaremos adversidades inenarrables. Sin amor, las montañas se vuelven difíciles de escalar, los mares son imposibles de cruzar, los desiertos son insoportables y las dificultades son inmensas en la vida.

Psychologists have concluded that the need to feel loved is a primary human emotional need. For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships.

After we come down from the high of the "in-love" obsession, the emotional need for love resurfaces because it is fundamental to our nature.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

But he had to think like a character in a Chekhov play, forever taunted by desires but trapped in a life much too small to accommodate the entirety of a human being. That was why Chekhov was eternally beloved.

Kahneman later wrote: This was a joyous moment, in which I understood an important truth about the world: because we tend to reward others when they do well and punish them when they do badly, and because there is regression to the mean, it is part of the human condition that we are statistically punished for rewarding others and rewarded for punishing them.

If we are here for any good purpose at all (other than collating texts, running rivers, and learning the stars), I suppose it is to entertain the rest of nature. A gang of sexy primate clowns. All the little critters creep in close to listen when the human beings are in a good mood and willing to play some tunes.

But each poetic world is not a pure invention, it is a possibility of nature. Imagination is itself immanent in the real. It is not a state. It is human existence itself.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Why do human beings have the peculiar impression that belief is the same as truth? Because sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes we need to believe in a better truth. What better truth can there be than truth?

The Austrian School of economics is an alternative to the mainstream approach. It places economics on a sound, human basis. It avoids the traps that plague most of modern economics: the assumption of selfishness as the basic human motivation, a narrow definition of rational behavior, and the overuse of unrealistic models.

God is hidden in vocations that bear authority. But that puts the pressure on human beings exercise that authority to act with God's justice and grace

Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.

I am not a talking vegetable, as you should be able to see. Even if a planet were to follow the one evolutionary way, out of some many millions, that leads to intelligence, it is impossible that it should duplicate in wood and leaf the form of a human being. The same thing might be said of stones, yet there are statues.

The executions I have seen performed and have performed myself so often are no more than a trade, a butchery of human beings who are for the most part less innocent and less valuable than cattle.

She possessed the hopeful, hopeless courage of the poor, which is perhaps the most appealing of all human qualities

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food - which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value. Asmodeus took to his toy enthusiastically. In another week he permitted me to stroke him, producing a raucous purr, but, in order to save his face, pretending to be asleep.

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food—which they take for granted—but his or her entertainment value.

Consumerism has become our most potent ideology because it so contemptuously dismisses our natual human modes of trait display, and it keeps us too busy -working, shopping. and product displaying- to remember what we can signal without all the products.

In search of good ideas, I started to see that marketing underlies everything in modern human culture in the same way that evolution underlies everything in human nature.

Other primate penises are pencil-thin, whereas the erect human penis averages over one inch in diameter. Also, most other primates have a penis bone called the baculum, and achieve erections mostly through muscular control, like a winch raising a rigid strut. The penis bone is typical of most mammals. By contrast, the male human relies on an unusual system of vasocongestion. The penis fills with blood before copulation, like a blimp inflating before flight.

Single mothers may have been the norm during most of human evolution, as they were during the previous 50 million years of primate evolution.