Quotes About Human

Oh, yes, let's bless the imagination. It gives us the myths we live by. Let's bless the visionary power of the human— the only animal that's got it—, bless the exact image of your father dead and mine dead, bless the images that stalk the corners of our sight and will not let go.

Yet however grotesque Stalinism may seem in retrospect, it also represented an heroic attempt to break the bonds of structural economic backwardness. And its failure stemmed as much from human frailty and folly and from the sheer weight of the problems bequeathed by the past, as from any moral flaws in the Stalinist vision.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

What, not even a driver?" asked Wren, focusing on the black, electric locomotive at the front of the train, a blunt, windowless thing, charging along like a bull. "The engine is the driver. A Popjoy Mark Twelve Stalker, controlled by a Resurrected human brain.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism, and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.1243

Rules apply to foremen and machinists, to clerks, sergeants, and vice-presidents, yet no durable organization is able to hold human experience to these formally defined roles. In actual practice, men tend to interact as many-faceted persons, adjusting to the daily round in ways that spill over the neat boundaries set by their assigned roles.

Spirituality' is a word that, in broad terms, stands for lifestyles and practices that embody a vision of human existence and of how the human spirit is to achieve its full potential. In that sense, 'spirituality' embraces an aspirational approach, whether religious or secular, to the meaning and conduct of human life.

As human beings, we are naturally driven by goals beyond physical satisfaction or mental supremacy to seek a deeper level of meaning and fulfilment.

And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human. For all their show of reluctance, she had a sense that they enjoyed introducing her to these horrors, as seducers took pleasure in the corruption of innocence.

On the one hand philosophy is like any other human endeavour, situated within and confined by the context of its day and yet on the other hand, it tries to wrestle with and expand the boundaries of current thought.

Machines may get better at "mimicking human meaning," and thereby better at predicting human behavior, but "there's a difference between mimicking and reflecting meaning and originating meaning," Ferrucci said. That's a space human judgment will always occupy.

The explanatory urge is mostly a good thing. Indeed, it is the propulsive force behind all human efforts to comprehend reality. The problem is that we move too fast from confusion and uncertainty ("I have no idea why my hand is pointed at a picture of a shovel") to a clear and confident conclusion ("Oh, that's simple") without spending any time in between ("This is one possible explanation but there are others").

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Instead of extinguishing in the heart of men the essential and natural love for themselves, morality should use it to show them the interest in being good, human, sociable, and trustworthy: far from wanting to destroy the passions inherent in his nature, morality will lead him to virtue, without which no man on earth can ever enjoy true happiness.

He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind's psychological readiness to read a given book at a given moment, and how important, nay, critical, it was to have the book one wanted to read at the absolute ready when the inspiration struck.

In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Such is the paradox of Jesus the Christ in the world. Because God is limitless he assumed human form and lived a limited life. Because God is unknowable, he became a person whom we can know. Jesus is God's gift of God's self to space and time precisely so we can come slightly closer to understanding God and to understanding ourselves in relation to God.

La mia indipendenza, che è la mia forza, implica la solitudine, che è la mia debolezza. Odio – come ho tante volte detto – l'indipendenza politica. La mia è quindi una indipendenza, diciamo, umana. Un vizio. Non potrei farne a meno. Ne sono schiavo. Non potrei nemmeno gloriarmene, farmene un piccolo vanto. Amo invece la solitudine. Ma essa è pericolosa.

I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla, thinking—with my old, magnificent privilege of thinking… (And let there still be a god in me that thinks, lost, weak, and childish, yet whose voice is so human it is almost a song.) Oh, to leave this prison of poverty! To be free of the yearning that makes these ancient nights so splendid! He who knows yearning, and he who does not, have something in common: man's desires are humble.

The science called 'economics' is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or a particular dimension of all practice, from the social order in which all human practice is immersed.