Quotes About Human

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

But women grow the living dreams, the human ones." Gorbals argues. "A human being is the greatest creation of all. Each of us is a new living dream.

Diana' What if she was here to show us a third way? Between pleasure-seeking and piety, between self-obsession and self-denial; a life which is lived to its fullest, with the fact that we are human animals and want to have fun seamlessly blending into the fact that what diminishes others, be it homelessness, illness or war, diminishes all of us?

In any case, seeing care for certain groups as an excessive cost reflects an arguably perverse way of thinking about health care in terms of human need. [...] In other words, care for the sick is an economic burden only in health care systems where profit is the bottom line and public services are underfunded and politically unsupported - that is, systems in which only market logic is considered legitimate.

l'uomo, allo stato di natura, nasce virtuoso; il vizio deriva dalla vita nella società mondane, esposta alle artefatte pressioni urbane.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

There's nothing that people rebel more against, I told Jacques, than being forced to acknowledge the secret and immediate power their fellow human beings have over them. There's maybe nothing more common, routine. A savage power, as indifferent as a thunderbolt, where intellect, merit, beauty, language are nothing but animal electricity, a polarity that suddenly develops. Falling under the spell. Forever. We never talk about it—it's taboo.

La novela es ese gran combate que libra el escritor consigo mismo porque hay en ella todo un mundo, todo un universo en que se debaten juegos capitales del destino humano

El llanto medio u ordinario consiste en una contracción general del rostro y un sonido espasmódico acompañado de lágrimas y mocos, estos últimos al final, pues el llanto se acaba en el momento en que uno se suena enérgicamente.

Those who harbour illusions about the possibility of a purely political struggle and the power of this or that formula or system, with no new human quality as its exact counterpart, have learned no lessons from the past.

THIS BODY Happy, I listen to the tinny sounds of the great music I still hear. Dazzling clear pure upper tones have disappeared but I am alive, silvery and achy—like Beethoven I listen with my imagination not my senses to the cascading notes that play on the cosmos, I listen with my heart and dance to the bliss I would never have known without this human body. JANINE CANAN

as the revolution was made by human beings, it was burdened with their failings.

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

Doubt is human nature. It's what we do with it that matters.

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.

The floor was slick with blood, so much blood that he felt his feet sliding on it, the grease of human remains.

It's love that enslaves us...It is the play within the play, the stage on which the tragic drama of our human lives unfold.

I]t's very difficult to ask questions of nature that aren't somehow already colored by our very human preconceptions. Even the simplest, most objective, questions may play into preexisting prejudices.

That's one thing about human beings I don't see the point in: love. It does nobody any good. You love someone, and either they let you down or they die.

There's a transformative power that exists in the nature of Reality. There is something that can almost miraculously transform human beings. We need that. (p. 3)

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Oppenheimer was acutely attuned to the consequences of his actions, but, like Arjuna, he was also driven to do his duty. So duty (and ambition) overrode his doubts—though doubt remained, in the form of an ever-present awareness of human fallibility.

Man is a creature whose substance is faith. What his faith is, he is.