Quotes About Human

History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.

I was so affected by hearing another human speak to me with grace and respect.

Oh yes I am thinking the human soul is a very slight thing, and not much evolution has gone into it I fear. It is a vague slight notion with not even a proper niche in the body. And yet is the only thing we have that God will measure.

Es liegt in der Natur des Menschen, bis in den Tod hinein an die Kraft des Guten zu glauben, selbst dann, wenn er dem Bösen in seiner reinsten Form begegnet.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

The highest order of mental health must include the freedom of a man to employ his intelligence for the solution of human problems, his own and those of his society.

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

We're not trying to replace human intelligence. We're trying to augment it. We're trying to make it better.

People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

You're naught but a human man. You couldn't possibly understand." He lifted a brow, still smiling. "Liar." "Cutpurse." "Runaway." "Swindler! "Coward," he said softly, and she jerked back. "Bastard!" "Undoubtedly true." He made a short bow.

the love of beauty above the human is fascism

and anyways this boy knows what's what, he can look deep into his own heart and tell you the nature of the human - kindness, courtesy, force.

and how faithful; how faithful a book was, and how strong, a place you could be safe, apart from the world, held inside a world that would never grow weak, and which could pass through wars, massacres and floods-could pass through all of human history, and the integrity of its soul would stay strong.

It is the flowers in the soul of the person who put them there that make us happy and enliven our hearts. The beauty of the flowers is a clue to the beauty of a human heart. They are a keyhole into a human heart.

When we try to turn ourselves into a beautiful object, it is because we mistakenly consider ourselves to be an object, when a human being is really the other two: a gesture, and a reproduction of the human type.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

It's all right." He stretched his shoulders out, the flesh between his blades sore, which meant his grizzly hump had grown while he was still human. Rare and not good. "Really. It's all right. And I can understand if you're not comfortable staying here tonight." He looked up at her. "Or if you want some space or…if you…if you…why are you getting naked?

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.