Quotes About Human

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Instinctively we struck out for dignity first because personal degradation as an inferior human being was even more keenly felt than material privation.

As Minsky argued, stability destabilizes. This is an aspect of what George Soros, the successful speculator and innovative economic thinker, calls 'reflexivity': the way human beings think determines the reality in which they live.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.

Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.' 'There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our heads to rules ours hearts.' 'Emotion is our human weakness.,' she said, 'reason our strength.' 'And love,' he said, 'is our destiny.

Si ricorda quello che dice Darwin della musica? Sostiene che la capacità di eseguirla e di apprezzarla esisteva nella razza umana molto prima che si arrivasse alla facoltà di parlare. Per questo, forse, la musica esercitava su di noi una sottile influenza.

The proper study of mankind is man,' you know.

It is, however, when the human soul is ploughed and harrowed by suffering that the seeds of truth may be planted

The habits and learning potentialities of all species are fixed within the narrow limits which the structure of its nervous system and organs permits; those of homo sapiens seem unlimited precisely because the possible uses of the evolutionary novelty in his skull were quite out of proportion with the demands of his natural environment.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom; and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence.

Astrology provides a brilliant proof of the miserable subjectivity of human beings, as a result of which they relate everything to themselves and go from every thought in a straight line immediately back to themselves. It relates the course of the great celestial bodies to the pathetic I, as it also connects the comets in the sky with earthly quarrels and shabby tricks.

The use of the word person in every European language to signify a human individual is unintentionally appropriate; persona really means a player's mask, and it is quite certain that no one shows himself as he is, but that each wears a mask and plays a role. In general, the whole of social life is a continual comedy, which the worthy find insipid, whilst the stupid delight in it greatly.

Der Mensch kann wohl tun was er will, aber er kann nicht wollen was er will.

In every human undertaking there is something which is not in our power and does not come within our calculations; the wish to win this for oneself is the origin of the gods. Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor is an old and true saying of Petronius.

Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any sort of reflection, and very properly mistrust their own discernment. At the same time this remarkably strong imitative instinct

Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any sort of reflection, and very properly mistrust their own discernment. At the same time this remarkably strong imitative instinct in man is a proof of his kinship with apes.

human nature is so constituted that we pay an attention to the opinion of other people which is out of all proportion to its value

The character of the human being is empirical. Only through experience can one become acquainted with it, not merely with that of others, but also with one's own.

El hombre puede, acaso, hacer lo que quiere; pero no puede querer lo que quiere.

O horizonte intelectual do homem normal pode até ultrapassar o do animal - cuja existência, sem nenhuma consciência do futuro e do passado, é inteiramente presente -, mas não está tão distante deste quanto se supõe.

every human individual be aware of the inescapable and arbitrary suffering which is set off by the very existence of the will and refrain from using the imaginative power of our mind to envision it otherwise.

Why do you submit to regulations, "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch" . . . according to human precepts and doctrines? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting rigor of devotion and self-abasement and severity to the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh.